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    "content": "reference to that particular CS. Then consider also provisions of Section 39 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act with regard to balancing. If you propose a reduction, you must provide for a mechanism where you are going to balance. Looking at Article 221 (5) and (6) of the Constitution, it explains what the Budget and Appropriations Committee is expected to do. Not many of you have been addressing this point, except Hon. John Mbadi. I do not like making reference to a Member who is not present. Hon. John Mbadi in 2013 raised the need for us to continue having in our Standing Orders Nos. 236 – 240 the Committee of Supply. Do they have any place in a presidential system? If you read through those Standing Orders you will see that this is the old system which was used by the previous Parliaments. These are allotted days in Committee of supply. In fact if you read, the chairs of committees are the ones who should be rising to claim that so much money be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure for this particular year. It is fair if you look at all those things. I am not making the ruling yet, but I am trying to think aloud, so that we consider all those things and then see whether we are right, because the system we have adopted is slightly different. Is there something we can borrow from those provisions on supply, yet the Constitution requires that the recommendation would be the one by the Budget and Appropriations Committee, but which is also required to take into account the recommendations of other committees? I think that is where we need to strike the balance. Even those Members who want to speak as chairmen of other committees could try to zero in on that, so that you do not address me on behavioural science since I am unlikely to want to get into how people relate with others. Some of those things may not be necessary for this particular issue. These are issues of: Who wants to relate with whom? Who wants to go to a mosque or a church with whom? Who wants to attend some funeral meeting somewhere with who and in whose company? Let us move away from those ones, so that we only zero in on this, because this is a critical matter."
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