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    "id": 553540,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we need to get a serious Communication on this matter. This is because Parliament, more so the National Assembly, through its committees like the Budget and Appropriations Committee has a fundamental constitutional role in the budget- making process under a presidential system of governance. The process is well stipulated in the Standing Orders, Constitution and the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, which this House has passed. Serious stakeholders must be involved and their input taken seriously. For example, the National Treasury does a pre-Budget stakeholder consultation. I am sure the Member for Seme Constituency, who is a former Permanent Secretary (PS), knows there is public participation and key economic blueprints like the Vision 2030 are taken into consideration. The Budget Policy Statement (BPS) is brought to the House by the Budget and Appropriations Committee for discussion. It is taken to the Senate for notification; the Senate is supposed to note the BPS. More fundamentally, the parliamentary committees are important in the sense that they are the ones which are in charge of respective departments. That is why Government officials like CSs and Accounting Officers appear before committees which listen to them. They might agree or disagree with them, and they finally send a report to the Budget and Appropriations Committee defending their views."
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