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    "id": 192447,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, to help the hon. Member, the Budget for Parliament is a one line item. It appears within the Recurrent Expenditure. I hope that as you get yourself familiar with what happens in the House, you will be able to contribute more effectively. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue we are discussing here is, again, informed by the assumption - and I can see where the proponents of the amendment are coming from - that we just make a leaner calculation and say we want to withdraw 50 per cent. I can tell this House that between now and December 2008, we will be requiring much more money than the 50 per cent. But we know that the Constitution can only allow us to withdraw up to 50 per cent. For education alone, I mentioned, for example, we will need to pay the fees for the third term. That fees will be paid before we pass the Appropriation Bill. If we deny the Ministry of Education those funds to pay fees for our children, they will all be out of schools because Parliament has not acted with responsibility to foresee the need for that money by the time it befalls us. So, let us not just look at it like an assumption that we have not done our work. We have done more than we needed to do. As I mentioned in the Budget, this is the most difficult Budget we have had to do. More importantly, we need to start giving confidence to the people out there, that we know what we are doing, as a House and a Government. We are not giving people the impression that we are doing that in half measures. It is not estimates. We are not saying that life will continue after a quarter. We must show that we have confidence and we will go for the whole one year and that we will pass the Appropriation Bill as reflected in the Motion that was approved this morning, in terms of saying we are comfortable. We want to go forward, we want to get out of poverty. That must be done by all of us pulling together and saying let us move forward in confidence that we are going to be here for the next five years and help this country to move forward. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to oppose vehemently and ask the rest of the House to join me in the same."
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