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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. We have already approved this expenditure and all we are doing now is to actually give the official authority to withdraw these monies from the Consolidated Fund. We gave our reasons for supporting and caution where we needed to give caution. In line with the new Constitution, we want to see discipline in the area of spending. Year in, year out, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is always noting Permanent Secretaries or Ministries that have spend beyond what is approved by Parliament. We want to see the Treasury take disciplinary action. It is unconstitutional and irregular for any Permanent Secretary to incur expenditure beyond what is approved by Parliament. This is especially for foreseeable things. When you incur bills beyond what is budgeted, it amounts to indiscipline and impunity. Even when this Parliament, through the PAC, condemns such actions, such Permanent Secretaries continue to do the same thing next year. That is a demonstration of impunity. We want to see the Treasury take action where anybody spends beyond. If an emergency arises, there is the Contingency Fund and they are supposed to seek approval from the Treasury so that they can access the money in that Fund. Let the old habits of “anything goes” end with the first Republic. This is the second Republic under the new Constitution. We expect total discipline and respect for the rule of law. We should say goodbye to impunity. We want to see efficient use of money and value for money. Finally, I urge the Treasury that while we are waiting for the county governments to be in place after the new elections, we want to see the budgetary process recognise that we are in a new era. We want to see increased monies going to the constituencies clustered under the county so as to prepare for the coming era. With those very many remarks, I beg to support."
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