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    "id": 43548,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/43548/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": " Mr. Chairman, Sir, it is important for Members to note that the Constitution only recognizes three arms that can present a Budget to Parliament under Article 221. These are the Executive, Judiciary and Parliament. But there is no provision in the Constitution for any of the other Commissions to table their budgets here. So, we can put it in a law, and then we will find a situation where their budget will not be funded. I would rather propose that we do not have this amendment, unless we change the Constitution to provide for the independent Commission to also table their Budgets to the House. There has to be another mechanism of how those budgets will actually come here, because Article 221 is very clear that Parliament, Judiciary, and Executive shall present their Budget and they will be harmonized by the Parliamentary Committees. There is no provision in the Constitution for an independent Commission to present their budget directly to the National Assembly."
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