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    "content": "Order, hon. Members! Maybe the Chair can again attempt to help. I want to try to shed some light on this. Since Independence, Ministerial responsibility, house, domestic servant allowances, gratuity and all other payments that relate to being a Minister have always been paid by the Executive. Parliament makes all those payments that relate to an hon. Member, as an hon. Member. Now, for some strange reason, after we passed the Budget--- All these figures are not from the blues. They are actually a collection of what was in the Budget we passed, or rather the balance of it, because a lot of it has already been spent over the last few months. The Minister, for some reason now wants such payments to be made by Parliament. If I understood Dr. Kituyi well, I think the rationale is the following: There is separation of powers between the Executive and the Legislature. That principle is not procedural. It is constitutional and basic to parliamentary democracy. The minute you try to fuse, because this is what the proposal attempts to do, you completely destroy the concept of separation of powers, as we understand it."
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