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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Laboso",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "that the National Treasury builds adequate capacity and carries out adequate consultation before making their presentations to Parliament. Before I move to areas of reduction, increases and reallocations, I would like to make a clarification regarding the Supplementary Estimates and the Report of the Liaison Committee. The Supplementary Estimates that were laid in this House had increases and reductions in various votes, where the Liaison Committee did not have any issue. Regarding the increment or deduction, the Committee did not make any recommendations. It is in this regard that the Supplementary Estimates laid before this House had already included Kshs332 million in the vote for the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) for financing activities of monitoring and evaluation for the Senators. That clarification is important. Anything you may have heard in the public domain is not true. The Kshs332 million was already in the Estimates. We did not make any changes to those Estimates. I urge that everyone, and in particular the media, takes time to fully understand the budget documents, especially the Supplementary Estimates. The Parliamentary Budget Office, which has wide experience on complex budget matters, is available to explain matters on budget when it is called upon to do so. I am convinced that the mis- reporting in today’s dailies could not have happened if explanations had been sought. Since there were no changes in it, it is not included in our recommendations; which are as follows:- With respect to financial proposals, having considered the above matters, the Committee recommends the following changes in the Supplementary Estimates. On proposed reallocations the Committee recommends the following reallocations:- (a) Reallocate Kshs200 million set aside for purchase of milk coolers under the Livestock Resource and Market Development Support Service Programme to Kenya Meat Commission for modernization of the slaughter houses in Athi River and staff rationalisation at the Commission in the State Department of Livestock. (b) Reallocate Kshs1.71 billion from the Power Transmission and Distribution Programme in the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. This will comprise reallocating Kshs1.71 billion from allocations for capital transfer and grants to Kenya Power Company (KPC). This means that Kshs1.2 billion will go to capital grants to KPC, Kshs500 million to the capital transfer for non-financial public entities, Kshs1.5 billion to the Rural Electrification Authority and Kshs210 million to the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board. The amounts will be broken down as follows:- A sum of Kshs50 million for the completion of the ongoing grid study, Kshs50 million for the environmental assessment of the Kenya Nuclear Programme, Kshs50 million for the establishment of the legal and regulatory framework and Kshs60 million for publicity and advocacy. That is how that reallocation has been done. In the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), there is reallocation of Kshs50 million for the provision of international legal support and outsourcing of legal services to a programme for vetting EACC staff. There is reallocate of Kshs150 million under the primary education programme in the State Department of Education. This includes reallocation of Kshs100 million from construction of building to fund a shortfall in the contract for supply of computers in secondary schools, which has already been signed. A sum of Kshs50 million for capital grant under the ICT programme for training of teachers under the Digital Literacy Programme. Next is reallocation of Kshs325 million under the Ministry of Water and Irrigation from the on-going unfunded projects of 2015/2016 Approved Estimates in the Water Resource 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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