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    "id": 803583,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to make it very clear that the House does not act in vain. Everything that this House passes or does must be implementable and that is what I meant. For instance, the figure allocated by the Constitution for the Equalisation Fund is a certain percentage. So, if this House passes an allocation that is twice that percentage contrary to what is in the law, then that is an amendment in vain. Secondly, if this House passes a provision that, in the opinion of the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC), falls within the deficit level of the amount of money that was allocated, then that means the money is in deficit and, therefore, not there. That is what I meant and I still want to go on record that for the Equalisation Fund, we have asked the Budget Office of Parliament to do a document between now and tomorrow or next week to tell us what the actual amount the Constitution has provided this financial year based on the law. The amount for the Equalisation Fund is known based on the last audited account. We have told the Budget Office to provide that to us. Once we know the amount, and if there is an error that the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury has done, we can then correct it. The other one was on roads. The Chairman of the Committee in charge of roads is here today. He was the only chairperson missing here yesterday. We want him to be given an opportunity to deal with the matter on roads instead of him disappearing. You must tell the House whether there is money given in the amendment that we rejected. At the end of the day, we want money. That Kshs30 million must go to our constituencies. We cannot pass things here in vain. So, the Chairman must tell us whether arising from the action we took yesterday, we will have the Kshs30 million."
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