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    "id": 553538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Speaker. I have also been asking myself the question raised by Hon. Jakoyo. This is because I am also a chairman of a committee and we spend a lot of time and energy scrutinising the Budget. When you are ruling, I will want to know to what extent the Budget and Appropriations Committee takes on board, or does not, the recommendations of the respective Departmental Committees and whether they can do it without consultation with the respective chairpersons. This is because that will then mean that all these processes during which we call Cabinet Secretaries (CSs), and various heads of departments are very useless; this is so since one committee can override, without recourse, the decision of a previous committee. It is a very fundamental matter which means we change the way we go about the Budget process. I am a member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, but I am also concerned about those chairpersons who are not members of that Committee but just submit reports, and they are not there when the decisions are being made. Anything can be said, so that whatever recommendations they made become almost irrelevant. It is also good to know and clarify whether it will be a good practice to have chairpersons being present when we are adopting the reports of committees in the Budget and Appropriations Committee, so that they can clarify or be consulted, in case of any questions. Otherwise, we spend a lot of public funds in meetings which can be overridden just in a day’s recommendations. It will be fair to clarify that position."
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