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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbau",
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        "legal_name": "Elias Peter Mbau",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to indulge you as you make your ruling tomorrow to take due cognisance of the fact that as the Assistant Minister for Finance tables the Supplementary Estimates, they are supposed to have been informed, and to a great extent based on what should have accrued if Parliament had passed the Finance Bill. So, I would like you to ensure that the Treasury clarifies to the House that as it seeks to make these Supplementary provisions, the Finance Bill may not be the one that has not been passed by this Parliament. However, to the extent that Supplementary Estimates are going to be based on the Finance Bill that was passed in 2010/2011, and which is law this House may be willing to discuss the Supplementary Estimates. Secondly, the Assistant Minister has just, out of time, tabled the Budget Policy Statement, which ideally is supposed to inform the making and presentation of the Budget proposals by the end of this month; it gives Members of this House a hard time in analyzing the effect and inform or make contributions before laying such a report in this House, so that the House can be informed and give contribution and recommendations to what would become the Budget proposals that we are expecting to be tabled in this House by 30th of this month. So, I am seeking your indulgence because the House is not the one that failed to do its duty of informing and making contributions to debate on the Budget Policy Statement. May I seek the indulgence of the Chair and the House to ensure that the House is given at least one week, now that the Budget Policy Statement has been laid on the Table out of time, to dissect and discuss it with a view to making contributions to the Budget proposals for the year 2012/2013."
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