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    "id": 846678,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Firstly, I want to recognise that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the National Treasury came before this House to read the Budget Speech and then we discussed it. There are some elements of that Speech that became very unpopular. We discussed them in this House. I want to draw the attention of this House to the power we have when we discuss some of those proposals. Because some of those proposals were debated in this House and in the public, they are not in the Finance Bill. For example, one of the proposals that were in the Budget Speech was that there would be taxation of imported wood. This contradicts the Big Four Agenda where you want to construct so many houses that will involve wood, and you also want to preserve our forest cover. There is no way we can say that we want to protect forests and increase housing, but we will charge people who bring wood from outside a certain duty. I am glad because that did not see the light of the day. It is not in the Finance Bill. I believe that is the kind of the spirit that we should have of the things that are prescribed in the policy and their intentions. So long as there is some debate in this House and outside, it will force some re-thinking. I am happy because some of those things are not in the Finance Bill. It has brought issues that were not controversial but some of them have become controversial. We hope that it will be changed."
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