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    "id": 515641,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/515641/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2679,
        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "Iwant to talk about the three areas that I oversight directly as a member of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and a member of the Departmental Committee on Lands. I agree with the Budget and Appropriations Committee for allocating a further Kshs 4.2 billion to the National Lands Commission (NLC) and a further Kshs 1.2 billion to the Ministry of Lands to purchase survey equipment to enable rapid development of settlement schemes in Kenya. I however differ completely with the Budget and Appropriations Committee for not engaging us more on their decisions to scrap all proposed increments in the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources which is Water and Regional Development Authority. Those two deserved more resources. We are in the sector and we know what happens. An example is the Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA) that will have a contractor on site with no money to continue with the development of a multi-billion plaza that had been programmed from the last financial year. The mechanism of handling the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) and the ceilings should be much more consultative than a one off affair where the Committee that has intimate knowledge of the sector makes proposals and the Budget and Appropriations Committee which does not know the intricacies of that sector makes unilateral decisions .There should be a more consultative way of dealing with these ceilings. Some of these things require more indepth knowledge. I also want to fault the place of BPS in the Budget cycle. These things that we are discussing today ought to have been discussed last year in November so that we can have more time to deal with them and interact more with them before we pass the ceilings. Finally, I would like to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for maintaining the ceilings proposed for the State Department of Mining. Thank you"
}