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    "id": 781548,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Further to that, over the last few years, it has been a custom or a tradition that every time we pass this Bill in this House and we send it to the Senate, we find them coming up with different figures. It is worth noting that the Inter-Governmental Budget and Economic Council held meetings where the Senate, the Commission of Revenue Allocation and the CoG were invited. They unanimously agreed on the figures that got to this House through the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) that we approved. It is also worth noting that immediately after we passed the BPS, there were reports that the Commission on Revenue Allocation went to the Senate with different figures far from the ones agreed. I take this opportunity to ask our friends in the Senate to adhere to the agreed figures because these figures have an implication on the fiscal deficit that we were talking about during the debate on the BPS. You can remember how heated the debate was in terms of our national debt. If you were to allocate any extra coin other than what has been agreed on, it would have a negative impact on our national fiscal deficit and, therefore, affect our national debt. I hope Members in this House will support this Bill even as we go to the Third Reading this afternoon and pass it on to the Senate. I hope Senators will stick to the figures as agreed. In the new spirit of building bridges, we would also want to take this opportunity to shake hands with our colleagues in the Senate, so that for the first time in five years, we pass this Division of Revenue Bill without wasting a lot of time going into mediation. I want to speak to the other House and ask even those of us who have opportunity to speak to our Senators to pass this Division of Revenue Bill as it is, so that they are able to fast-track the County Allocation of Revenue Bill and move forward towards our estimates later this year. With those few remarks, I want to invite Hon. Moses Lessonet to second. I do not see him. Let me invite Hon. Makali Mulu to second on behalf of the Vice-Chair. Thank you."
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