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    "id": 706590,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "I think most of them have been referred to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Therefore, it is that Committee that really needs to invite the Controller of Budget to take them through those reports. This is with a view to either getting them better explained for consumption of the majority of the membership that may not be technically savvy in the field of financial management. I do not see either the Chair or the Vice-Chair. Do I see some active Member? Hon. Makali Mulu, this is a very important issue. In keeping with the constitutional requirement, the Controller of Budget has been forwarding these reports. This is the Annual County Governments Budget Implementation Review Report for the 2015/2016 Financial Year. Of course, there are other Reports that have happened in the past. We refer them to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, which is supposed to digest them and report to the House its consideration of the Controller’s reports, just like the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PIC) deal with reports from the Auditor-General. Those reports they table here are their own digestion and explanations of what it is the Auditor-General has reported on in the case of PAC, mainstream government and government ministries and in the case of PIC, with regard to State corporations and other agencies where the Government has invested and what they make of the reports from the Auditor-General. So, with regard to this, we had expected, as a House, that the Budget and Appropriations Committee would be the appropriate committee that would delve into the details contained in that Report and come up with a report which the House would then debate and, perhaps, adopt. I am sure even though the Chairman of the Committee and his deputy are not present this information is in safe hands of Hon. Makali Mulu. Is that not correct? Should we expect that it is in safe hands? I believe that it is in very safe hands. Please try and do something and then give us a report."
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