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    "id": 778117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Parliament who participated in the process of reviewing the BPS and MTDMS for working very hard to ensure that the Report is finalised in time. As you will remember, I stood when these Reports were tabled by the Leader of the Majority Party exactly 14 days ago. I reminded chairs of committees that they had only seven days and they were able to work very fast and within those days they gave us reports to consider. I also wish to express my gratitude to the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) and I can see some of the officers here. They gave their unwavering support to this Committee and all other Departmental Committees as they discharged their mandate of reviewing the BPS 2018 and the MTDMS 2018/2019. We may have to look at how we can further strengthen this office in terms of its mandate to include monitoring and evaluation and also increase staff strength so as to support all Departmental Committees. We noticed during our meetings that a number of our chairs, who are new Members of Parliament, had a problem dealing with BPS because of the resource gap in terms of officers. I want to encourage the Parliamentary Service Commission to consider expanding the staff levels of the Budget Office and second officers to each Departmental Committee so that we have one framework for the Committees to use. With those very many remarks, I beg to move and invite the Leader of the Majority Party to second."
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