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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I want to support the Report by the Committee. In supporting the Report, I wish to indicate that the Ministry of Finance needs to keep up with the time. We have implemented a new Constitution. We have a law called the Financial Management Act, with very clear timelines. When the Ministry does not follow the time lines, then we almost engage in an exercise in futility. Fortunately, I know that we will have an opportunity later on to remedy this by introducing amendments to the Estimates. I would like to encourage the Budget Committee that as they go for the public hearings, they should concurrently give information to the public about the recommendations to the Committee, so that the public have information about what the Policy Statement provides and what the Committee recommends. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to indicate, first, that I am happy that the Report gives us an update on our compliance or possibilities of compliance with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). One of the things that I want to say about the Policy Statement is that it is very weak on gender mainstreaming. I would want to give the example that when it talks about the incidences of poverty it gives a comparison that was at 45.9 per cent in 2006, and that moved up to 52.3 per cent in 1997. I would have loved to see the gender aspects of that. This is because we know that there is feminization of poverty and the persons who suffer the most, and the poorest of the poor in this country, tend to be women. Therefore, I would want to indicate that in future we need to have the Ministry and the Committee---"
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