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    "content": "and Departments in the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The ruling made by the Chair in both instances helped in addressing the issues raised at the time. As you are all aware, this august House relies primarily on the existing legal framework and established practice in addressing issues of this nature in a bid to ensure that the eventual solution is practical and sustainable. I therefore wish to commence my Communication today by highlighting the mandate and responsibilities of the two Committees regarding what Hon. Makali Mulu sought guidance on. To begin with, the mandate of the Budget and Appropriations Committee as provided for in Standing Order 207 entails the following: (i) to investigate, inquire into and report on all matters related to coordination, control and monitoring of the national budget; (ii) to discuss and review the estimates and make recommendations to the House; (iii) to examine the Budget Policy Statement presented to the House; (iv) to examine Bills related to the national budget, including Appropriations Bills; and (v) to evaluate tax estimates, economic and budgetary policies and programmes with direct budget outlays. Based on these areas of mandate, the Budget and Appropriations Committee has been identified by this House as the ‘relevant Committee of the Assembly’ referred to in Article 114 of the Constitution. Thus, the Budget and Appropriations Committee is further mandated by the Constitution: (i) under Article 114(2) to guide the Speaker in determining the action to be taken on a Motion that makes provision for a matter listed in the definition of a ‘Money Bill’; and (ii) Under Article 221(4) to discuss and review Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure of the national Government and make its recommendations to the National Assembly. These recommendations, upon approval by the House, become the basis of the Appropriations Bill. This role is also provided for in Section 39(2) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012. Further, Clause 6 of the same Article 221 provides, and I quote, “when the estimates of national government expenditure, and the estimates of expenditure for the Judiciary and Parliament have been approved by the National Assembly, they shall be included in an Appropriation Bill, which shall be introduced into the National Assembly to authorise the withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund of the money needed for the expenditure, and for the appropriation of that money for the purposes mentioned in the Bill” Hon. Members, I resume my seat to allow Members to make their way in."
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