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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, another issue is that we should not miss out. When you look at the Public Finance Management Act (PFM) Act, Section 2, it says that before the National Assembly considers the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, the relevant Committee of the National Assembly shall discuss and review the Estimates and make recommendations. It is only the relevant Budget Committee which is conversant with the specific programmes as far as that Budget is concerned. The Budget and Appropriations Committee will not be able to know; it is only there to consolidate. It will be in order if the work of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, when it comes to the budget-making process, includes a requirement that they integrate a report based on how the Committees had presented their budgets. The budget-making process is very critical for any departmental agency and, indeed, for Cabinet Secretaries. Whatever the case, when it comes to presenting this to the Committees, it should be done by the Cabinet Secretary. If we go downwards, we should not go lower than the Principal Secretary. I know that the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade has been very busy travelling. It is important, however, that some of those foreign travels are delegated. This is because with the budget-making process, it becomes very difficult to delegate. So, foreign travels could be delegated to the Principal Secretary or whoever is senior in that particular Ministry. However, in future, it is important that the Cabinet Secretaries should be the ones to appear before the relevant Committee. The relevant Committee should then internalise and as it appears before the Budget and Appropriations Committee then it is in a position to defend those budgets. We all know that without money you go nowhere."
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