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    "id": 878744,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity. The BPS is an extremely important document. It looks at how we have used resources in Government programmes in the past and what we obtain. It sets a future of how and on what programmes we will spend. It also sets the ceiling of what we are likely to spend. It, therefore, needs extreme scrutiny when looking at it. I must congratulate the committees of the House and the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the work they have done in just 14 days. I noticed that it was really stressful. Members were running all over trying to be in the House and in the committees. My suggestion is that we may need to look at our Standing Orders so that in the first week of the consideration of the BPS, we do not have sessions in the House. I remember Members of our Committee trying to contribute to how dead bodies should not be retained in hospital while waiting to look at the BPS on health - something which if we solved at that point, would not be a problem. In the second week, we would then have the committees reporting to the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the House would resume. That is something I recommend we look at. I will not mind repeating. When the BPS was tabled, everybody was looking at where the Big Four Agenda was. Everybody said that they did not see it. That is tragic. We are all geared towards the Big Four Agenda. We are supporting the Big Four Agenda but we do not see"
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