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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me start from the outset by supporting the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I really appreciate the expanded powers of the House in terms of looking at matters of budget in our country. The Committee has indeed used these powers very well to look at areas that the Executive might have left out and to confirm some of the programmes that the Executive have. I really congratulate the Committee for the long hours they took to come up with this Report and the amount of consultations that have gone into this process. Allow me also to congratulate the Committee and ask that we keep improving the process of budgeting in our country. If you look at the Report that we have availed today--- This is a conversation that the Committee has had and I think it needs action. We must have in our process of budgeting an end of the financial year review. Our work is not just to sit here every year to give funds to different Ministries without ever checking what is going on with the funds. In the Committee, it has been proposed that as early as November/December of every financial year there is a mid-year review of the budget even before we proceed to the next financial year. This is something that needs to be in-built in the process at the time the Public Finance Management Regulations and Rules are going to be looked into. Even the Act should be amended to provide for an end of year financial review where we look at the programmes and what they have delivered. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also hope that as we go along we will improve the statistics. We are in a country where nobody can tell you the number of pupils and teachers we have. When we do the Free Primary Education and the Free Secondary Education, the data that we have continued to use is sometimes very old and inaccurate. We continue to fund many programmes in a country where we have almost 50 per cent of citizens living below the poverty line. The idea behind programme-based Budgeting is that people’s lives should incrementally be changed by the programmes that the Government is getting into. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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