{"id":694571,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/694571/?format=json","text_counter":702,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. George Ng’ang’a","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"I am sure your office has had a chance to consider those regulations as against the provisions of Section 131 of the Public Finance and Management Act (PFMA) which provides that the estimates or the proposed estimates will be considered and approved with or without amendments by the assembly. Your office has had an opportunity to consider the subsequent regulation that seems to cap the extent to which the Assembly can amend. Do you see an inconsistency between the two? If you do, which ones should prevail, is it the substantive Section 131 or the regulations you have referred to?"}