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    "content": "That is not a Freudian slip. It is a genuine slip of the tongue. Under the national Treasury the budgets for human resource reforms be reduced by Kshs1.5 billion. This is because the costing of the programmes was not exhaustively done. The provision for the Public Procurement Oversight Authority be reduced by Kshs19 million, because of the limited absorption capacity of this agency. The allocation for establishing an expert service scheme be scaled down to Kshs100 million; the Committee felt this was sufficient for the programme. That the provision for the Financial Reporting Centre be reduced by Kshs150 million. This is because of the limited absorptive capacity of this agency. The allocation of Kshs100 million to the Nairobi Financial Centre was found to be a duplication of roles; so, this was reduced to zero. Refurbishment of the Treasury building at a cost of Kshs278 million was also reduced to zero. This, we did not feel was a priority project. Let me pause, perhaps, to indicate that as we are all aware in the 10th Parliament the Government of the Republic of Kenya had 42 Ministries. This time we have 18 Ministries. That is a major improvement and credit goes to the new Constitution and to our President. They could have been more than 18, but he chose to have 18. When the Treasury brought a figure to us that they wish to do some work on their building - they were proposing to erect a connecting bridge between the Treasury and Bima House, we asked ourselves: Should we not get a master plan? Now that the Ministries have come down from 42 to 18 what we should actually get is a real master plan for the Treasury and for all the other Ministries that are affected. We gather that the President prefers to work from State House and that is commendable for many reasons. Maybe time has come to give more facilities to the President at State House. We might want to move other departments that work closely with him on a day to day basis near State House. An example I have here is the Office of the Deputy President and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The point was also made that given the difficulties we are having acquiring properties near Parliament, maybe time has come for us to find ways of taking over the Attorney-General’s Chambers. If that rationalization is made, the Attorney-General’s Chambers could be moved to another building, maybe Office of the President or the current Office of the Deputy President and so on. Granted that the number of Ministries have been reduced from 42 to 18, what my Committee wants is a thorough and proper rationalization---"
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