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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 384,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank the Members for the interest they have shown in this Bill. In fact, up to now, I could feel that there was a lot of interest in this Finance Bill. As has been noted, this time round, the Finance Bill is very lean because the National Treasury together with this House, has continued to update all the finance laws, the most recent one being the VAT Act, 2013. There are many others which are coming for renewal so that going forward, we expect the Finance Bill to continue being leaner and leaner. I want to thank hon. Junet, specifically because he is present today in the House. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to encourage him to be in the House all the time so that if there are Bills which he disagrees with, he should disagree in the House. That way, we will avoid passing laws here while hon. Members outside there say that they opposed the Bill. Therefore, I want to encourage him to be present when these Bills are being done, together with his colleagues who have been criticizing Bills which have been passed before this House. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I just wanted to touch on a few issues which hon. Members have been questioning. Like the issue of allowing payments for local travel by the employers. I want to clarify that it is given as a benefit to employers of organisations. The policy is meant to ensure that you encourage Kenyans to travel locally so that we can spur economic growth; given that as we speak right now, we have serious challenges with our tourism sector. Therefore, it is not really the point which some hon. Members have been putting across that it is a benefit to hon. Members. It should be very clear so that people do not say that this is unconstitutional. That is missing the point. The point is that we need to encourage local tourism. We need to encourage our people to travel and see 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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