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    "content": "this extent of debt, I think we can make a case that we should benefit from that facility so that we can retire some of those debts. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the Eighth Parliament, there was a man known as hon. Simeon Nyachae who said that the economy was in the “ICU.” What did the appointing authority do? He was transferred. Part of the recommendation he was making and which made a lot of sense to us when we had that conference on the economy in which the entire Parliament participated was that if we must retire some of this debt, instead of the domestic debt, we should retire more of the foreign debt, which has better terms of repayment than, may be, the crippling domestic debt. I think these are the proposals that we need to consider and I would invite the PAC to consider really, giving value for money and going ahead and be bold enough, as the air, to actually give certain proposals to the Government, because this is a Government that is basically asleep. They have been talking of bringing the Organic Management Bill for all the years I have been in this House and they have not brought it until we brought our own Fiscal Management Act here. Let Parliament be proactive. We have already demonstrated leadership in this country and we should not be waiting on an Executive that has gone to sleep to try to make it up. It cannot! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, I want to wish the Committee well. I want to encourage them that we appreciate the continuation of the desire of the practice of being current. According to the Report, they are dealing with the reports of 2008/2009 so that, at least, let us have a lag period of about a year or two. Anything more than that will not be doing service to this nation that we have committed to serve. They must make sure that the Treasury Memorandum which is supposed to be a response from Government on the recommendations of the Committee, should not be drafted in the way it is usually drafted. If you read the Treasury Memorandum that is responding to this, they have told us nothing! You will find that we reiterate the recommendations of the last four years which were reiterated in the other third year, which was reiterated in the second year and now the current report will be reiterating the same position. Parliament must now start biting and we have the powers now through the Standing Orders. We have the Committee on Implementation. If something is not done that Parliament has recommended, we should not be reiterating our positions. We should be recommending surcharge. We should be recommending that 1 percent removal from that particular Ministry. These are the recommendations that Dr. Khalwale and the Committee should be considering. We should start biting so that these people know that when Parliament makes recommendations on behalf of the nation, it is up to the Executive. We are not begging the Executive represented by the Whip here and I am not sure where he belongs; whether the Executive or the Back Bench. We are demanding on behalf of the people who brought us to this House that services must be rendered and money must be put to good use. We appropriate money in the House. It must go to the intended purpose. Any other thing must be condemned and appropriate punitive measures must be taken. I know that hon. Members are equally interested in this particular subject because it is extremely important. With those remarks, I wish to support."
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