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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Laboso",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As you are all aware, the Committee was established under Standing Order No. 217. Its mandate is:- (i) To guide and coordinate the operations, policies and mandate of all Committees. (ii) To deliberate on and apportion the annual operating budget among the Committees. (iii)To consider the programmes of all Committees, including their need to travel and sit away from the precincts of Parliament. (iv) To ensure that the Committees submit reports as required by the Standing Orders and consider reports of Committees that have not been deliberated by the House and report to the House on the consideration of such reports. (v) To determine, whenever necessary, the committee or committees to deliberate on any matter. (vi) To give such advice relating to the work and mandate of the select committees as it may consider necessary. What has the Committee achieved? The Committee had established the following:- It has facilitated the fast-tracking of the Senate Bills pending before the National Assembly Committees and facilitated the fast-tracking of Bills with constitutional deadlines. Following the ruling by the Speaker that the Liaison Committee takes over the role of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on an interim basis, the Committee has done the following:- (i) Considered the 2016 Budget Policy Statement and tabled its Report in the House on 3rd March 2016. (ii) Secondly, it tabled its Report on the Division of Revenue Bill 2016 on 22nd March, 2016. The following business is still pending before the Committee:- (i) Consideration of the first Supplementary Estimates for 2015/2016 Financial Year. The Committee expects to conclude the Estimates and table its report on 14th April 2016. (ii) Money Bills referred to the Committee in accordance to Article 114 (2) of the Constitution. 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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