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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nanok",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2947,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Epuyo Nanok",
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    "content": "Take an example of the social sector ceiling. The Government intends to cater for additional beneficiaries, for instance, of the National Safety Programme but when you look at the kind of ceiling that they were given, it looks like it was not going to be met. Hon. Speaker, if you look at education, there are very important programmes that are going on in the Ministry of Education. For instance, the capitation grants for the free primary education and the free secondary education. Again, this was flagged out by the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology as a budgetary item that seemed not to have been provided for effectively. All these recommendations were coming from the Committees. This is what public participation is all about. Members of Parliament, as representatives of the people, are the ones who are doing public participation in this case but the law provides for public participation. Article 25(2) of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act is the legal basis upon which the Budget and Appropriations Committee was proposing for the consideration of the public hearings. In concluding on that aspect of sectoral ceilings, it is important that Departmental Committees further interrogate the budget priorities of various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) so as to eliminate the level of acrimony that seems to be rising within the Government because MDAs is the Government. It is the Executitve and they are the ones who are preparing these budgets. When the Ministries appear before these Committees and seem to want to adjust ceilings through the Committees and propose those adjustments to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, our role as the Budget and Appropriations Committee would be to make the recommendations to this House. It is upon the House to look at them and adopt accordingly. It is important that the National Treasury effectively consults with the two other arms of Government, that is, the Judiciary and Parliament so that their ceilings are not arbitrarily fixed as it seems to have 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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