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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this important Bill. The Ministry is supposed to be in charge of financial discipline in the Government. What I have seen is that the Ministry is trying to reduce--- If you look at the history of budgeting and financing of programmes, you will find that it is a matter of trying to reduce the amount of money being spend on Recurrent Expenditure vis-Ă -vis Development Expenditure. An effort is being made towards that end. However, some construction or physical development goes on at the Ministry of State for Defence every year. In the Printed Estimates, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance has allocated Kshs46.546 billion to the Ministry of State for Defence for Recurrent Expenditure and nil funds for Development Expenditure. I do not know how that Ministry will cope because there are always projects going on. We also debated in this House that the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation has not been allocated enough funding. I hope that as we go along, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance will take into account the sectors that will revitalize the economy such as education, health and infrastructure like roads. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have been talking about pending bills. This morning we noticed that there is a backlog in the Ministry of Education with regard to the funding of Free Primary Education and Free Day Secondary Education. It would have been wise this time for the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to provide money so"
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