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    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": " He was trying to distract me. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Bill. First, this is based on the kind of procedures we have in that, before we do this, certain things will not happen. That is necessary for the country to move on. The other issue I want to raise is that of having the Supplementary Budget or appropriations too close to the main Budget. This is something that needs to be observed seriously. One thing that the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee should have brought out is the kind of difficulties we are getting, particularly from the Departmental Committees. If the energies that the Departmental Committees put in in terms of issues regarding the Budget were enhanced, some of the things we are experiencing now would not exist. A good example is the issue of the money allocated to the Judiciary. When we came up with the main Budget and we cleared it out, the Judiciary was left with almost no money and yet, they had listed very many things that they were proposing to do. They did this with the Committee. The head of the Judiciary appeared before the Committee - and I thought that was a moment to behold because he came himself - to state that he is unable to move on. There was something that was not right. This is something that the Departmental Committee should have seen a little bit earlier. That aside, the next important issue is that of the deficit. We are realising huge amounts of deficits in our Budget. When you try to connect this with the issues of borrowing, it shows that we have a big problem. We are conscripting the sectors, particularly the production sectors which we need to target for purposes of generating revenue. Currently, looking at the domestic levels of borrowing, the cumulated debt stock on the domestic side is so huge to an extent that the main player is the Government. Other sectors of the economy are not playing in terms of borrowing from the local banks. The main borrower is the Government. If it goes on like this, either it will remain expensive on one hand or on the other hand, it will become so difficult for banks to lend to small businesspeople and small-scale farmers for purposes of production. The Government in itself does not produce. We are conscripting the real production sector. We are denying them the chance of getting money which they can use and which we can end up turning 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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