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    "id": 813631,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Thank you for that information. The right word to use is ‘harmonize’.The Kenya Roads Bill (National Assembly (Bills No.47 of 2017) seeks to harmonize many things in terms of the different boards that exist in as far as the roads are concerned. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, so that we do not look like we are duplicating functions, today, we are discussing a Motion about rural roads, management of roads and the maintenance of roads. Last week, we debated a Bill before this House on how we should harmonize our roads systems of management. It will be good for us and the Mover of this Motion to check out as we propose these regulations. It is a tradition in most Bills that there is a provision that the Cabinet Secretary will make regulations to operationalize the Bill when it passes. At that stage, some of these regulations that could be proposed pursuant to this Motion can be brought together so that we do not have regulations coming out of these particular aspects and then also awaiting other regulations that come to implement the Bill that we passed. As I said, this Motion is a complement. Since when you compare a Motion and a Bill, the latter can take more from this Motion and enrich that Bill so that we do not duplicate our efforts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Motion talks about budgetary constraints in our counties. This is the key thing we need to address. Even if we passed the regulations and the Bill we debated last week, today, without proper budgetary allocation for implementation; the things we talk about and purposes of maintenance of these roads, running the boards, continuous management, capacity building and getting the necessary technical assistance and expertise we need to do these roads, we will be doing nothing. I want to talk about this because just a few minutes ago, the Chair of the Committee on Finance and Budget brought to the attention of this House a very serious commitment by his Committee that they noted that national Treasury slashed the budget and allocations passed by this House for the counties. It is only after the interrogation and questioning the national Treasury on the slashing of the budget that the national Treasury released the money allocated for the countiesas approved by this House. Does it mean that the national Treasury was trying to shortchange the counties? Why did the national Treasury cut back on this Budget when we need more money for the counties? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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