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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. S.S. Ahmed",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Supplementary Estimates. The Budget and Appropriations Committee has had a very difficult task. This is complementary to the efforts they have made together with the Budget Office, the Executive and the secretariat. The 11th Parliament is very instrumental in the process of or responsibility of the budget-making process. Hitherto the introduction of the current dispensation, the Budget used to be prepared by the Executive and brought to Parliament in a rubberstamping process. During the 10th Parliament, I was in the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, which used to look at the Budget. We found out that we had neither the capacity nor the time. The fact was that it was a very big responsibility. I was in the Constitutional Review Committee with the reverend, our Chairman. I remember how we discussed these issues. The issue of taking the role of budget-making started as a thought there. As I go back, I see the first years of the 10th Parliament. For one-and-a-half years, the Budget and Appropriations Committee went through a lot of challenges. Nobody wanted to hand over the responsibility or power. It was a power game between the Ministries, the Executive and the Committee. The power games went on and on and it took a lot of goodwill, firmness and diplomacy to get this over to the extent that one at time, it appeared that the Budget and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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