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    "id": 833220,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this good opportunity to also support this Bill, which has been moved and seconded by my colleagues in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I support the Bill as presented even though I will be making some observations. As a House, we remember that around June, we went through the Committee of Supply and through it, we were able to supply what is going to be used in this financial year. But when the Finance Bill was presented to this House, we could not agree with some of the proposals by the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. As a result, we were not able to fund our Budget fully. There was a shortfall of about Kshs55 billion which the Government had no choice but to make proposals on how to meet that deficit. As a result, a number of proposals have been put forward to us as a House and we have managed to bridge the gap of the national Government to about Kshs47 billion, leaving a deficit of about Kshs9 billion, which is the proposed reduction of the county governments allocations. As it has been reported by my colleagues, we conducted public hearings as a result of which we picked one or two things which I need to mention. In our interaction with the Controller of Budget, one of the things she was clear about is that there is a huge budget which has been provided for printing of their reports which are normally sent to the National Assembly and county assemblies. One of the things we have said as the Budget and Appropriations Committee is that it does not make sense in this era of technology to do 1,000 hard copies of a report to be shared among Kenyans because they can read those reports on the website of the Controller of Budget or any other source. So, one of the things we will be proposing as we move forward is that it is important that departments which have huge budgets for printing are advised to reduce the budgets. The National Assembly can be given only about 60 copies and the county assemblies get 20 copies of these reports so that, at the end of the day, those reports are uploaded on all 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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