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    "content": "provides the authorization of withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund. When confronted with similar questions as the ones we have today, my immediate predecessor, hon. Kenneth Marende ruled on 30th August, 2011 that: “The Motion on the Budget Committee Report is a Motion within the meaning of the Standing Orders and was, therefore, dealt with and disposed of like any other Motion. The rules applicable to debate on a Motion and the permissible amendments apply. What is key there – I want you to carry this with you even as I go through these directions – is that it was a Motion adopted by the House. If it is a Motion, then just like any other Motion, rules applicable to debate on a Motion and the permissible amendments will therefore apply. The Motion passed by the House on the Budget Committee Report is an expression of the views of the House on the Budget.” Hon. Members, from the foregoing it matters not whether it is consideration of specific votes in the Committee of Supply or a resolution of the House adopting the Budget Estimates. The cardinal rule is that the House has expressed itself on the Estimates and that the National Assembly has passed them. The House on 11th June, 2013 passed with amendments the Motion for adoption of the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Estimates and the Motion as amended having been passed became in effect a resolution of the House on those Estimates. The Report of the Committee had recommended to the House increments, reductions, and reallocations on the votes and those recommendations were adopted by the House with amendments. In other words, any Member of the House had an opportunity to propose amendment to the Budget Estimates as it would be the case in the Committee of Supply. In the last financial year, the House did not commit the estimates to the Committee of Supply; instead, an Appropriation Bill was introduced and passed upon adoption by the Budget Committee Report. Hon. Members, I wish to agree with the contention of y hon. Ng’ongo that the House, having passed the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, had in effect approved those Estimates. Committing the Estimates to the Committee of Supply again, would imply re-opening matters for which the House had already taken position on. In this regard, I rule as follows:-"
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