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    "id": 811165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "This Parliament is guided by traditions, procedures and precedents in addition to the Standing Orders. I am not aware of any Motion that has been brought to this Parliament to remove the Committee of Ways and Means. So, it is within the traditions of Parliament since it was started. We should start with the premise that Parliament has always had this Committee. The fact that there was a lapse between 2013 and 2018 and the Committee of Ways and Means was not put in motion, does not necessarily negate or annul it. It is still in the parliamentary procedures. Previously, for the benefit of the Members who were not there, ministers used to come to this House. The opening line of the budget speech then was, “Mr. Speaker, I beg to move that Mr. Speaker, do now leave the Chair”. The minister would stand and move a Motion during the budget speech saying that the House resolves that Mr. Speaker leaves the Chair. Then, the whole House would convert itself into a Committee of Supply and Committee of Ways and Means. The Committee of Supply was to approve the estimates and the Committee of Ways and Means to provide the means for financing those supplies. By approving the budget speech, then the House would constitute itself into a Committee of the whole House. This was not a specific committee like a departmental committee, but the entire House constituting itself into a committee. Come the year 2010, the CS for the National Treasury is an outsider. So, we have an issue because he cannot address Parliament as a Member or move a Motion. The only thing we can do is to reconstitute ourselves and the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning moves a Motion. So, we can take that opportunity to approve the prayers of the CS, who can only communicate through the Provisional Collection of Taxes and Duties Order."
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