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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Were",
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        "legal_name": "David Aoko Were",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to second this Motion. As the Mover has indicated, it was a tedious process because it is the first time that our Committee has handled such a task. This was necessitated by the fact that the whole Budget and Appropriations Committee was not approved in the House. It was a learning process. It was not easy the way we thought. The first thing we came across is that, at the moment, the revenue collection is low. The targets that the Government is giving as revenue collection are not real. The ceilings for all the ministries had been cut. It was difficult especially after the Committees had engaged the various ministries and reached agreements on where to increase or reduce the ceilings. When we met the National Treasury, we found out that it was not an easy exercise in the sense that, because of the low revenue collection and the burden of debt, where the committees had agreed to rearrange budgets within the ministries, the National Treasury was reluctant to accept them. Where we tried to change the ceilings within sectors, we found out that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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