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    "id": 356772,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "I would want to support. If Article 218 requires that a bill coming to this House should have a memorandum then it introduces a legal debate as to whether that memorandum should constitute part of that Bill. This is a new regime in this country and anybody could actually say by the virtue of that provision, it is constitutional that we should look at the bill. Bills are also accompanied by schedules and I think the House needs to realize that the Treasury will result to its own schedules as proposed in the memorandum to justify this Bill. Hon. Chairlady, therefore, for the avoidance of doubt and to make sure that Treasury mandarins do not connive with the figures we need to have this clause. Indeed, this clause is also restoring the independence of this Parliament to make budget. As you look at the estimates which we shall be discussing further in the memorandum, we are proposing amendments, but when we leave it as such and then it goes to the Senate and nothing is done about it, then Treasury can easily follow its own schedules and put them as part of these bills."
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