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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker for this opportunity. I also serve in the Budget and Appropriations Committee and do wish to support the Report of the Committee on the Supplementary Budget. I think all of us in the Committee agreed that we need to have very good planning for the programmes that we want at a time like now when we have the Jubilee Government with a manifesto. We should plan very well and put as much as we can in the financial year as we have done in the 2014/2015 Budget. But as it is, there are changes that are required within the year; that is why the Supplementary Budget is necessary at this time. We want to reiterate that some of the changes that are happening in the Supplementary Budget are actually moving some money that was meant for development to recurrent budget. I think we already have the Public Financial Management Act that limits recurrent budget to 70 per cent, so that 30 per cent is left for development. Even as we seek to do a Supplementary Budget, it would be very important that the balance is maintained; the country must resist the temptation to take development funds and put them into Recurrent Expenditure. So, even as we support the Report, I think we should make every effort to curtail our Recurrent Expenditure and put more funds into development. A time must come when a large part of tax proceeds of this country will be applied to development and not just to Recurrent Expenditure. The conversation on the wage Bill is one that the Committee and this Assembly support. I think the other issues to note, which have come up many times are absorption, especially of development funds, and the procurement law. I think time has come when 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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