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    "id": 901928,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/901928/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "The Calendar of this House is not a secret. Everybody in this country knows when the House goes on recess. The National Treasury must have been aware that the House is going on recess today. Having tabled the Annual Estimates for the 2019/2020, it gives Members time to look at them during the recess. That is all I wanted to mention, to just remind Hon. Members, and especially chairs of the committees, that we will have no choice other than process the two concurrently. Should there be anything that needs expenditure in the course of this financial year, unless in your view and in the view of the Leader of the Majority, there is need for a special sitting in between; it means we can only do an Appropriation Bill for Supplementary Estimates II and for the Financial Estimates for 2019/2020 concurrently between the first and second weeks of June. This will leave the spending entities of the Government with less than two weeks to spend the money. If Supplementary Estimates II is meant to regularise what has already been spent, there is no big problem although we must make it clear to the National Treasury that they should adhere to this House’s Calendar so that we do not overwork Members. Committees will be lost on which Bill to give priority, but I beseech them to process both of them concurrently so that we can approve them as soon as we resume at the beginning of June."
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