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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97(4), this House orders that each speech in a debate on the Report of the Budget & Appropriations Committee on Budget Estimates contemplated under Standing Orders 239 and 240 be limited as follows: 1. General Supply Debate:- A maximum of three (3) sitting days with thirty (30) minutes for the Mover in moving and fifteen minutes (15) in replying; a maximum of ten (10) minutes for each of the Chairpersons of the Departmental Committees and a maximum of five (5) minutes for any other Member speaking, except the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, who shall be limited to a maximum of ten minutes (10) each; and that priority in speaking be accorded to the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party and the respective Chairpersons of the Departmental Committees in the order that they appear in the Second Schedule to the Standing Orders; and, 2. Committee of Supply: A maximum of six (6) sitting days for the consideration of the proposed allocations to the respective Votes/Programmes in the order specified in the Schedule submitted by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Hon. Speaker, I move this Motion in accordance with Standing Order 97 read together with Standing Order 239. As all Members are aware, the National Assembly is the budget- making House. In this regard, it is expected that we thoroughly scrutinise and debate the Budget Estimates and, where necessary, make changes to the Budget before the approval of the House. In the 11th Parliament, we were not strict in following the budget-making procedure as contained in our Standing Order Nos. 235 to 245. I am sure my colleagues who served in the 10th Parliament will be aware of that. In the 11th Parliament, that was not followed to the letter. Those Standing Orders require that the House takes a maximum time possible to have a general debate on the Estimates similar to the Second Reading of a Bill and dissolve into the Committee of the whole House to consider each programme for each Ministry, Judiciary and Parliament, both recurrent and development expenditure. Question is to be put for all the votes one by one. The Budget for the Financial Year 2018/2019 has a total of 24 votes. This was the procedure followed until the 10th Parliament, but which the 11th Parliament did not follow strictly. Members who have served in the previous Parliaments, including Hon. Kimunya, Hon. Angwenyi, Hon. Cecily Mbarire, Hon. Maoka Maore, Hon. Kioni, Hon. Mbadi and many others are familiar with the process which used to take place in about 21 days of the budget-making process. Currently, and indeed in the last Parliament, the Budget Estimates were approved in a day or two. This Motion seeks to increase the approval period to nine days so that we, the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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