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    "speaker_name": "June 13, 2013 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 10 Hon. Chairman",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, allow me to call this meeting to order. We are about to begin a session of the Budget and Appropriations Committee of the National Assembly. This is a special meeting of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We meet here to execute the stipulations of Standing Order No.241, which provides for the Cabinet Secretary, Treasury, to brief the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Budget policy highlights and revenue raising measures. It is important to note that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has already examined the expenditure proposals by the three arms of Government, and the House has approved the report of the Committee on the same with some, I believe, positive amendments. The expenditure proposals are, therefore, not new to Parliament; there is a more in depth view of the Budget as well as the rationale employed in the allocation of resources to the various programmes. This can only come from the Cabinet Secretary’s perspective. We are, therefore, hoping to benefit from today’s events, and hope that all the hon. Members of the National Assembly will take note of the pronouncement, ensuring that the various departments and Ministries in the Executive adhere to the principles spelt out throughout the financial year. We also expect that the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, will lay legislative proposals setting out the revenue raising measures for the national Government for the Financial Year 2013/2014 before this Committee. I undertake to transmit this to the Committee on Finance, Trade and Planning for introduction to the House in line with Standing Order No.245. This is the first time that we, as a Committee, are holding this event. Hon. Members of the Committee have had the opportunity to raise issues and concerns with the Cabinet Secretary at another meeting. Therefore, I do not expect any points of order, filibuster Motions, questions or interventions as the Cabinet Secretary briefs this Committee. Hon. Members, before I invite the Cabinet Secretary, I would like to introduce two guests, namely Abdi and Zainab Mohamed, who have come all the way from Isiolo, and are sitting in the Public Gallery. I invite you to welcome them in our usual manner."
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