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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Similarly, the Estimates, which are required to be laid on the Table of this House not later than 30th April, 2014, must be submitted within those timelines. Our own rules say that once they are submitted, they must be tabled in the House within three days and then they will be deemed to have been committed to the Departmental Committee without any Question put. If they bring the Budget Estimates on 30th April, 2014, which is scheduled in our calendar to be the last sitting day, it means that there will be no time for hon. Members and, indeed, for the various Committees to go through those Estimates. This is, therefore, a warning to the National Treasury particularly; that we will look with disfavour this mode of delivering documents which are meant to kick-off the Budget- making process in the country. We are no longer a rubberstamping Parliament."
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