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    "content": "Committees in respect of the Estimates. We have also received and considered reports from the Judiciary, the Parliamentary Service Commission and the Office of the Auditor- General. During that time, we brought the Budget Estimates for this year to this House for debate. We have also dealt with the Supplementary Estimates and the Bill that we dispatched only last night. We were also able to sort out the issue of The Division of Revenue Bill, which now is law. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Committee that I am honoured to chair for putting their best foot forward over the last five weeks or so and working very sacrificially, efficiently and effectively. I also wish to thank this House because it has considered our proposals favourably. I thank the Treasury, which has been exceedingly cooperative. Especially, I thank the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the National Treasury, Mr. Henry Rotich, and his team who have been available to meet us and answer questions at sometimes very inconvenient hours. I also thank the Chief Whip, hon. Katoo and hon. A.B. Duale, the Leader of Majority Party and of course, the Minority Whip for the support that we have received on all these matters from both the Jubilee and the CORD coalitions. I cannot forget to thank the Budget Office, headed by Mrs. Phyllis Makau. Her team and herself have also worked tirelessly and indefatigably over this period. Allow me to observe that upon the approval of the Budget Estimates by this House, the Budget and Appropriations Committee is charged with the responsibility of introducing the Appropriations Bill in the House pursuant to Section 7(h) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012, and the Standing Order No.240(16); the Budget and Appropriations Committee report on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Financial Year 2013/2014 as approved by this House on Tuesday, 11th June, 2013. This necessitated the introduction to the House of the Appropriations Bill 2013 to appropriate funds to be spent in the Financial Year 2013/2014. As I observed, we have reviewed the Appropriations Bill and have been greatly assisted, needless to say, by the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury to clarify some issues, inherent in the said Bill. The Appropriations Bill, 2013, has taken into consideration most of the recommendations of this House in the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Financial Year 2013/2014. Critical inputs by this honourable House include the savings amounting to Kshs18.4 billion and reallocations of these funds to needy sectors of our economy. Areas where savings were made included Kshs9.6 billion from the National Treasury, Kshs653 million from transfers and Kshs1.5 billion through austerity measures among others."
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