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    "content": "The Kshs2 billion for irrigation projects in schools, the Committee was not convinced are viable; we equally reduced this to zero. Hon. Speaker, Sir, Kshs105 million for construction of green houses in schools, which the Committee was not quite convinced were a priority was also reduced to zero. Hon. Speaker, Sir, Kshs75 million for the Privatization Commission is also being reduced to zero. The Recurrent budget to transfer to all semi-autonomous Government agencies, as they are called, is proposed to be reduced by five per cent to curb growth of non-priority expenditures. .We recommend a reduction of 30 per cent on provision for hospitality supplies, foreign travel, printing and advertisement in all government agencies in the National Government to maintain austerity measures on these none priority items, as instituted by Parliament in previous Budgets. We further recommend that allocation for all commissions be reduced by 15 per cent so as to curb the growth in non-priority recurrent costs. We also propose a reduction to the allocation of the Parliamentary Service Commission from the requested amount of Kshs24.5 billion to Kshs19 billion, which the Committee considered to be quite sufficient even for an expanded Parliament. We recommend that the ceiling to the Judiciary be limited to Kshs16.1 billion, out of which Kshs1 billion is for construction of courts in the counties. The Judiciary’s request for purchase of an aircraft has been declined by my Committee."
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