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    "id": 811178,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chrisantus Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank Hon. Kajwang’ for bringing this up so that we can learn from the good experience of Hon. Kimunya. Some of us who were in the last Parliament never saw those issues of the Committee of Supply and the Committee of Ways and Means. The Committee of Supply that we considered before the Budget Estimates were read out provided a very good opportunity of scrutinising the budget. It gave us an opportunity to feel that we are in a presidential system and this is a budget- making House as compared to the last Parliament. Hon. Kimunya mentioned that the Committee of Ways and Means will be provisional. So, when we debate the Finance Bill and annul some of the issues presented here, what is likely to happen? He mentioned that it would be provisional. I wanted to see that transition. It is a stop gap measure. Very soon, we will debate the Finance Bill. Some of us are very uncomfortable, particularly with regard to the issue of M-pesa . What happens? If we annul something that we have passed through this provisional provision, which one will take precedence? Hon. John Mbadi, the Leader of the Minority Party, mentioned the issue of the Standing Orders. He said that if a House has passed a resolution, you cannot bring back that Motion within the timeframe of six months. Reflecting back in the last Parliament, there was an outcry on zero taxation. I remember you, Hon. Speaker, exercised the Standing Order No.1 and it was brought back. We debated and reviewed it. I also expected you to have mentioned something about this. Although he left, but I was taking notes, he mentioned the issue of how we can bring this back and just the other day the House passed a resolution on something pertaining to it. As you conclude, you can also touch on that issue. This is continuous learning. I thank Hon. Amos Kimunya because he really brought it out well. That is why some of us are listening 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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