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    "content": "increasing the time, maybe, by one or two days and we should be able to comply with the Constitution. Why are we in a hurry to contravene the Constitution? After the Estimates were presented to this House, they were referred to the relevant Committee, which is the Budget Committee. We even went ahead to do consultations. The Committee actually went to all parts of Kenya and got views from members of the public. Are we saying that we got those views in vain? Did we act in vain? We wanted to hear those views, so that we could incorporate them in the Budget Estimates. That is why there was public participation. That exercise produced a number of recommendations. Those recommendations were captured in the Report of the Budget Committee, which was subsequently brought here, debated and adopted. In fact, they are no longer recommendations of the Committee. They are resolutions of Parliament. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are now saying that those resolutions should be incorporated in the Revised Estimates, which should then be brought here. After we have agreed on those Revised Estimates and approved them, as Parliament, the next thing is to debate the Ministries’ Votes. Due to limitation of time, and because the Committees of this House have been engaged sufficiently, the debate can be limited to the Vote of one Ministry and the rest of the Votes can be done by Guillotine. That process has to be undertaken. Once that happens, it will produce the substance that goes into the Appropriation Bill. In fact, even before the Appropriation Bill is published, if the exercise of debate on the Votes is brought here and the House approves the Estimates through approval of the Votes and Guillotine, what will be left for the Minister is merely to go and publish an Appropriation Bill. All these things can happen in one or two days."
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