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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the First Quarter Budget Implementation Review Report for the national Government by the Controller of Budget for the Financial Year 2014/2015 and the First Half Budget Implementation Review Report for the national Government by the Controller of Budget for the Financial Year 2014/2015 laid on the Table of the House on Thursday 30th April, 2015. Hon. Speaker, while on my feet kindly indulge me to, perhaps, remind my fellow chairs that now that the Estimates for the Financial Year 2015/2016 are before this House, they are not just committed to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, but are also deemed to be committed to the appropriate committees of this House. We have met as the Budget and Appropriations Committee and, without wishing to anticipate debate, it is our hope that we will make the decision to go on recess and will not come back until after sometime. It is hoped that during the recess much time will be given to the reviewing of the Budget Estimates, so that we can report back to this house soonest possible after we come back. Hon. Speaker, I would wish to kindly, through you, request that the committees be aware that this has happened because we intend to meet in second or third week of the month of May hopefully to look at the reports from the committees. We will scrutinize the reports and then table a report thereto before this House soonest possible. Mine is to kindly request you to mobilise the offices under your good care, so that the committees of this House do their work soonest possible, so that there are no delays in the Budget- making process. May I also say that with respect to the Mediation Committee, which I am chairing, as I said yesterday, we have met twice since we were constituted and we had a long meeting yesterday greatly assisted by the National Treasury. We had another long meeting today and it was my hope that we would have reached some kind of conclusion, but that was not possible. I am also aware that whatever decision is made, we have 30 days--- Article 113 of the Constitution will not in any way stand in our way when prosecuting the assignment before this House. For the avoidance of doubt, I would like to make that very clear. I also take this opportunity to speak to the county governments and make it clear to them that they too must go ahead and do their budgets. This is because whatever changes may or may not be made will not be of material nature, and there is no reason why the Budget-making process should delay simply because the Mediation Committee has not arrived at some conclusions the soonest possible. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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