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    "id": 865119,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/865119/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "As such, being able to put a safe guard to say that if a contract is being carried over from one financial year to the next, those are the people who are getting first priority in terms of payments, we have to be clear especially now when we have austerity measures and have been cutting down budgets. We have not known from those entities to what extent are they being affected. This is where there is materiality in the question which was raised earlier for Hon. Speaker to rule on. To what extent are the proposals being brought out by the Budget and Appropriations; Finance and National Planning Committees in terms of revenue raising measures? This is where we have a lacuna . It is a question where both entities are right: where the Leader of the Majority Party is standing from the legal point and saying regulations guide but, there exists a lacuna. Even when we are considering the Finance Bill within this House, a report is supposed to come from the National Treasury to say to what extent these revenue raising measures affect the continued budgets and programs which have already been put in place. I leave it to the wisdom of the Chair as at now because I do not support these proposals which are being brought in by Hon. Tonui because there is a gap and we must be alive to it. That is why it is worrying when counties are publishing astronomical figures in terms of pending bills. We need further clarifications."
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