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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, let me just make this absolutely clear. The process in which we are now engaged is one that does not anticipate situations whereby even the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury can write letters. If any CS desires to make any representation, he or she must appear before the relevant departmental committee, convince, pursue and conjure the Members of that committee. Should there be intractable differences, the matter can then be referred to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, which will then consider what the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury is asking. But matters have been agreed to go to a particular State Department. So, it is not open to the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury to begin writing letters. That is why I do not look at those letters because the matters are before the committees. The committees have taken a lot of time to go through and listen to whoever desires to be heard. Therefore, if the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is proceeding on the basis of some letter from the National Treasury, this is un-procedural. What needed to be done is that you would have invited the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and the Cabinet Secretary responsible for those particular dockets together in a consultative meeting to agree on whatever changes. At this stage, I think it is only fair we adopt that kind of procedure so that the National Treasury should be told to relax. Hon. Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee."
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