{"id":509221,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/509221/?format=json","text_counter":304,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Musyimi","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":95,"legal_name":"Mutava Musyimi","slug":"mutava-musyimi"},"content":"Hon. Speaker, as a Committee, we met the Treasury and discussed this matter. Knowing our mandate as the Budget and Appropriations Committee, with respect to the Budget-making process - there are other works done by other Committees of this House to monitor the programmes of Government - we were constrained to decline the proposed amendment. If I may perhaps say a little more; if you take the Standard Gauge Railway, the last time anybody met in a Parliament to discuss a railway line in Kenya was in the 19th Century in the House of Commons. That debate is chronicled rather well in a book titled “ Lunatic Express”, which I believe many of us have read. 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."}