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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "content": "I stand guided, hon. Speaker and I beg your pardon. I wish to take this opportunity to thank all hon. Members for their very generous, incisive and extremely helpful contribution to the debate and the issues that we have been deliberating upon. Budgetary matters are never easy. Much of Government is about money and that is what we have taken the last one month, no less, discussing. It has been a long process. The consultations have been full. We have met with the Treasury, as I said, seven times, no less; I could say more. We have also met as a Committee many times including this morning. We meet almost daily. We have also had very fruitful consultations at plenary these last couple of days especially with respect to the matter of public hearings and we have enjoyed having the benefit of the input that has come from our colleagues on that matter. The question still remains as to how we are going to proceed with public hearings without the capacity to support projects but that is a discussion for another day. We have enjoyed the openness and the manner in which we have debated these issues, of course, happening in the context of the wider issues that are being raised of corruption and the integrity of this House, which are not small matters. So, hon. Speaker, I want to thank hon. Members, the National Treasury and my Budget and Appropriations Committee, in particular. I want to thank you and the Parliamentary Budget Office for all the work they have done to facilitate the debate on the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). Hon. Speaker, with your kind permission I beg to reply."
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