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    "id": 43084,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I can see the dilemma we are in, but it is something that was expected and it is something for which we need to work out a way of dealing with. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me first of all, clarify one thing; that the reading of the Budget has nothing to do with the presentation of the Estimates of revenue and expenditure. The reading of the Budget is the proposals that the Government wishes to put forward in terms of the policies to be pursued in the following year, a review of what has happened in the past one year and giving of a notice of a Motion of issues that will be brought in the Finance Bill, which should be debated separately, and also issues that will be brought in the Appropriation Bill, which should also be debated separately. So, it brings together all these things in terms of where the Government is going and where the policies are; it is a summary of where we are coming from; it is a signal for the investment community to know the direction the Government wants to go, so that people can make their investment decisions. It is also an indication of where we are within the region. Mr. Speaker, Sir, so, from that perspective, the reading of the Budget Speech can as well be done with or without Article 221. The Government is at liberty to then come and agree on a date when it will provide that statement on where the Government is going, what the coming proposals are, what the taxation proposals that will come in subsequent dates and then at each point, Bills will then be read, debated by the House and passed."
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