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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "content": "Let me now come to recommendations at policy level and also financial recommendations. With regard to policy recommendations, National Treasury should have one supplementary budget which should be submitted at least two months before the end of the Financial Year, a point said too many times. This Supplementary Budget has been submitted with less than two weeks to the end of the Financial Year. In fact, we are being generous. This late submission may lead to over-commitment of funds which will not have been spent by the time the year lapses. There are inherent issues in the absorption of external funds. Year in, year out, there are always adjustments of supplementary and under-spending on account of external funds. This matter needs to be sorted out. Performance-based budget demands that when decisions are being made on allocations and variations, such decisions should be informed by a status report of budget implementation. We note that the Second Supplementary Estimates are a clear indication that budget implementation has very little relationship with the estimates that are approved by this honourable House. My Committee continues to emphasise on the need for the Executive to embrace performance-based budgeting. In this regard, the Supplementary Estimates should always have a scorecard on the performance of the budget so as to enable this House make an informed decision. My Committee further recommends that all payments under consolidated fund services should be comprehensively funded for under the annual estimates. Only those caused by micro- economic imbalances should be provided for during the supplementary estimates. With respect to financial recommendations, I beg to say that my Committee recommends that this House rejects the transfer of Kshs4.52 billion from the State Department of Water and Irrigation, which was earmarked for the National Irrigation Board (NIB) to the State Department of Agriculture. We did fairly substantial consultations yesterday before arriving at this decision, which we now recommend to this honourable House. This is because NIB was moved to the State Department of Water and Irrigation under the new re-organisation of the national Government, but has been budgeted for in the State Department of Agriculture in the Supplementary Estimates which, in our view, is a mistake. Moving the funds as proposed in the Second Supplementary Estimates would be disruptive to project implementation. Having considered the above matters, my Committee recommends that this House resolves to approve the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Second Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year, 2015/2016 and to approve the total supplementary expenditure to meet the expenditure during Financial Year 2015/2016 in respect of the Votes as attached in Annex I. I take this opportunity to appreciate all the members of my Committee who participated in the process and worked diligently to ensure that the work was done in record time. My Committee also thanks your Office, that of the Clerk as well as the Parliamentary Budget Office and all the support we get from our Committee Chairs to make our work that much easier and meaningful. It is, therefore, my great pleasure and privilege, on behalf of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, to recommend the Report on the Second Supplementary Estimates 2015/2016 to this House for adoption. I thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I request my colleague, Hon. Jackson Kiptanui to second."
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