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    "id": 41175,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenyatta",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
        "slug": "uhuru-kenyatta"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, consequently, we have assumed a real GDP growth of 5.7 per cent in our fiscal framework for the Financial Year 2011/2012. To ensure proper growth and sustainable development in the 2011/2012 Budget, we have continued to focus on key priorities as a basis for allocation of resources. This include improving access, transition rates and quality of education, enhancing efficient and quality healthcare systems, ensuring security for all persons and properties, empowering the youth and vulnerable members of our society by engaging them in gainful employment and wealth creation. Implementation of the new Constitution and promoting food security was also taken into account. Taking into account the above, we have, therefore, provided enhanced funding in the overall Budget in all areas that are pro-poor and pro-growth. At the time of the Budget submission, line Ministries had requested for additional amounts of over Kshs460 billion, over and above the Budget ceiling which we had provided in the Budget Policy Statement which I presented to this House in March, 2011. All that could not be accommodated by domestic borrowing without causing macro- economic dislocation. Due to resource constraints, we were only able to accommodate about 20 per cent of the requests, including provisions for new strategic interventions to deal with high fuel and food prices. Once again, I would like to thank hon. Members for their cooperation and continued support. I assure them that I will, indeed, take their views seriously and, as much as possible, take them into account at the appropriate time. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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