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"content": "Order! Could you just hold your horses? The Chair is trying to help you. Whereas sub-sections 4 and 5 talk about recommendations, sub-section 6 is very definitive and firm on the role of Parliament in this. However, there are two things we need to understand. One, the Appropriation Bill is not there in place. When the Appropriation Bill itself is done, that is the law. That is the time when the Minister has money for his Ministry and he knows how much it is. By the passing of the Motion yesterday, he has absolutely no money or authority to expend any money. That is the point. What is of importance is that we still have a problem because we are trying to draw our practice both from the Standing Orders, the old Constitution and the current Constitution. There is a serious lacuna in this. This lacuna can only be eliminated by the Public Finance Bill. There has to be no impasse. There has to be law in place to remove these grey areas, so that Parliament is able to exercise its role as provided for in the Constitution, but in a flowing manner."
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