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    "id": 282968,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282968/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’- Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have to realize that the Budget is as good as the wealth of the country. If we present our demands, which we do, there is always a Budget circle which involves all Ministries to discuss and present their demands. However, in the final analysis, Treasury must allocate resources according to the wealth of this country or the money we get from taxpayers. So, if the Ministry of Finance turns around says that they cannot give so much money, there is very little that the Ministry of Health can do. The point is that it is for this House to lay down certain priorities. If the House so decides when the Budget comes that we want so much money to be allocated to the Ministry of Health, then the House will have the power to do so. This is the House that decides in the final analysis. I said so earlier. I have said so several times in this House that, that is something we have done in our five year plan and it is in this answer. So, what we can do is to present our needs, but what we get back is from Treasury. How Treasury responds depends on the wealth of this country. So, it is a three way thing: Let us create wealth, let Treasury get a bigger pie from which to tax people and then the Treasury will respond more to the needs of the Kenyan people than it is doing now."
}