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    "id": 356748,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, Chairlady. I wanted to support hon. Nyokabi on the issue of this amendment which she is bringing. When I looked at it, I was one of the people who were thinking that we need to protect the House so that in future we are not held accountable in terms of a bill that we may need to vary at a later date. If it is just a memorandum, then it means when you look at it, you will find that there are tables that are coming after that. We are talking of Table 3 which is giving us expenditure items based on the proposals by the CRA and the National Treasury. On the last page there, there is also Table 4. In this, you find that we have not also been able to discuss the Equalization Fund. There is also the Appropriation Bill which will still be able to come later. In this proposal, we have not also captured the proposals by the CRA, neither have we discussed about the supplementary bill. Most of what we have is projected estimates and also estimates. So, in a future date when we want to be able to change, if we do not have a clause that will be able to protect us, we will not be able to bring those amendments. It will mean that this House passed this Bill the way it is and we cannot make any changes and we have to live with the consequences."
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