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    "id": 908736,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "Parliament other than oversight, representation and resolving issues affecting the people, is the question of Budget. So, this is a very onerous task Parliament is undertaking at the moment and we do not take it lightly. Let me begin from the comment that was made by the Leader of the Majority Party supporting the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the question of pending bills and debt. Even as we look at the amount of foreign debt that we have, there are forced debts that come in the form of pending bills. That is something that His Excellency the President has said must be dealt with. I wish the Budget and Appropriations Committee, whose Chair is seated here, would have gone a little further in the recommendation they have made for the amendment of the PFMA Act on the penalties to pending bills and touched on counties either in the Constitution, County Act or the Public Finance Management Act. They ought to have stated that when we allocate money to counties, not less than 70 per cent should go to development expenditure as opposed to recurrent expenditure. So, I support the recommended amendment, but how I wish the Committee had gone further in saying that we propose amendments so that when we allocate monies to fund counties, we see the impact the same way we see the impact created by the NG- CDF. Let me speak briefly on what I have not seen in this Budget. I know very well that there is work going on with regard to proposals to amend the Constitution, but I have not seen allocations made in the Budget and in the Report on how we will deal with that."
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