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    "id": 916280,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamket Kassait",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I rise to support this amendment. Like explained earlier by Hon. Millie Odhiambo, we are being a bit untidy in our understanding of the budget-making process. It is like we are building a house up to completion then we all of a sudden realise that we did not have provisions for windows and doors. But, since we have given ourselves this opportunity, I think this is a very important amendment. The avenues for oversight provided to both this National Assembly and the Senate are very limited. Hon. Members will agree with me that the oversight role we have been playing has mostly been through the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PIC). All that we have been doing as Parliament over the years is postmortem oversight. So, with this new proposal, I believe that we will as a Parliament be able to do real time oversight moving forward. Therefore, I believe with the explanation given earlier we begin with one foot in, let us not be jealous of our brothers in the Senate, that they have more money than us. We are just but at the beginning. We are the ones in charge of the budget-making process. I believe, even at the supplementary budget level we are at liberty, as a House, to appropriate more money to ourselves to do real time oversight of national Government functions. Finally, I want to allude to what Hon. Kaluma stated earlier. This is what we will do in the meantime: We will allow the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury to come up with regulations to operationalise the utilisation of this money. But, moving forward, we will have to come with an appropriate legislation to deal with this kind of oversight that we have created using this amendment. That is the long term but, for now, we can use this amendment to achieve what we want to achieve."
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