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    "id": 706799,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/706799/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "dispensable regulation such that because of the need and the justification by the requesting authority or agency that we can dispense with this. The CS is obliged by established law to demonstrate and, therefore, this is to validate the activities of the proposed public fund in the overall medium-term and the Budget Policy Statement. This is not the case and, therefore, it runs counter. As the chairman said, the Committee observed that the making of the Regulations did not adhere to the requirements of the Public Finance Management Regulations, 2015. The Committee further observed that Section 13(a) of the Statutory Instruments Act, 2013, provides that statutory instruments should be in accord with the Constitution. Therefore, the Act being pursuant to the regulations that are made and any other written not being acceded to means that we will be abrogating the spirit of the Constitution. Having said that, there is also the need to have the courage to deal with the politics of the Fund and the timing. Budgetary and appropriation process is also about the public spirit in terms of what ought to be done and what should be done. We appreciated very much in our Committee the need to have stronger Senate programmes in the counties. Everybody in this country agrees that our other Chamber, the Senate, has been without the teeth to do its work of monitoring, evaluation and anchoring their oversight roles in the counties. Therefore, much of the work they have received are Committee hearings, sometimes even running parallel hearings that are being done by the county assemblies, sometimes countering what has been initiated by the National Assembly. So, we understand that there is a problem. Moving forward, there is need for this country to be seized of the reality that the Senate as currently constituted in terms of the architecture of the Constitution---"
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