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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, there are other issues which need to be queried. Under Table 4, if you look at the national allocation, which has been further broken down, you will realise that there are a number of issues which we need to get some clarification on, and I will just pick two. Maybe in my amendments to this I will give more details. You look at Parliament, which has grown in size; the recommended growth in terms of the allocation is in 2012/2013 to 2013/2014; you will realize that it is a growth of just about 9.3 per cent. That is the increase from Kshs15.29 billion to Kshs16.7 billion. But, interestingly, look at line No.8, other constitutional commissions and independent officers, you will realise that the figure grows from Kshs5.9 billion to Kshs8.8 billion, which is an increase of 48 per cent. Again, I want to ask this, that we know what has happened in this House. The numbers of the hon. Members of this House has increased from 222 to 349, but I really want to understand what changes, or increases, have happened in the constitutional commissions, so that Parliament only grew its expenditure by 9.3 per cent whilst the commissions grew by nearly 50 per cent. This issue was again discussed in this House at length, and I will say that if we will have the opportunity to constitute the Budget Committee, which in my view is a very critical committee going by the fact that we are going through a critical time, when this country requires us to do some justice, then it will be a good thing."
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