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    "id": 553642,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to also support the Budget and Appropriations Committee Report. Before I go into the details of the Report, I want to make a general observation relating to the debate that ensued in the morning. As the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we resolved that when Departmental Committees reallocate resources from some vote items to other vote items, we should go by their decision. However, the challenge we have is that Departmental Committees come up with new proposals, in effect calling for additional resources that have not been budgeted for. It is really an issue of appreciating the whole budget-making process. The more I listened to hon. Members contribute, the more I got concerned about the level of appreciation of the budget-making process amongst hon. Members. The first time this House comes into contact with the budget-making process is at the stage of the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), which sets the ceiling for the various sectors of the economy. This House then discusses the BPS Paper and approves it. After its approval, it means that we have agreed, as a House, that the BPS is the resource envelop for the country for any particular financial year. So, when we have a situation where Departmental Committees come to the Budget and Appropriations Committee with requests for additional resources, we ask ourselves whether these are the same Departmental Committees which approved the budgets of the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as contained in the BPS. We need to appreciate the budget-making process; otherwise, it will appear that we have wars amongst ourselves, which is not true. We are all working for this country. We need to support the Departmental Committees. At the same time, the Departmental"
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