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"content": "expenditures contained in the Recurrent and Development Supplementary Estimates for the financial year, 2012/2013. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me take this opportunity to once again thank most sincerely all Members of this august House for the support and co-operation they have accorded to me during my time at the Treasury. I am also cognisant of the fact that most of our colleagues are actually in the constituencies campaigning, but because of the higher call of national duty, you have foregone your campaigns in order to perform this very important national duty. For that, I am grateful and I will remain grateful forever. Mr. Speaker, Sir, yesterday we passed the Motion on Supplementary Budget, and in brief, we are giving--- If you recall the final Budget for the year 2012/2013 that was approved by this Parliament consisted of Kshs655.8 billion for Ministerial Recurrent Expenditure, Kshs432.2 billion for Development Expenditure, Kshs5 billion for the Civil Contingency Fund and Kshs346 billion for Consolidated Fund Services. Mr. Speaker, Sir, since the commencement of the financial year, the Government has faced a number of challenges and emerging priorities, which were unforeseen that require additional funding. These include salaries and allowances for teachers, health workers, university staff, police and prison service, civil servants and teachers expenditures and other expenditures related to the forthcoming general election, the ongoing security operations in Somalia and more importantly the operationalization of county governments. I wish to assure hon. Members that despite these challenges, we have contained our expenditure within our available resources in order to maintain a stable micro-economic stability. Specifically we have financed additional expenditure through the Civil Contingency Fund, through rationalization and scaling down of expenditures or slow moving projects and deferring projects not likely to commence within the remaining period of the financial year. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with the approval of the Appropriations Bill, the Controller of Budget will then have the legal authority to approve withdrawals from the Consolidated Fund. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think the Bill is self- explanatory. I will not go into details because the amounts are there. The only thing I would like to state is that instead of doing across the board cut expenditure, I insisted that we interrogate each and every Vote head, each and every line so as, first of all, to understand whether those expenditures will be required or not. Therefore, we have not done across the board cuts, as it used to happen before. We have gone to each individual Vote, so that we do not affect the operations of the Ministries. Lastly, I would like to thank the staff of the Treasury led by the Permanent Secretary, the Director Budget, the Economic Secretary, the Financial Secretary and all their staff for a job well done. It will be of interest for Members to know that when Kenyans were celebrating Christmas and Boxing Day, we were in the office. When Kenyans were celebrating Jamhuri Day, we were in the officel; when Kenyans were celebrating New Year, the Treasury staff including the Minister were in the office trying to come up with these Bills. With those few words, I beg to move and ask hon. Obure to second."
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