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    "id": 956323,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "projects being implemented and essential services being provided to them in line with the approved budget. Equally, the National Assembly has a central role of ensuring services and projects for which monies were appropriated by this House through the Appropriations Act are equally delivered to the citizens. However, effective delivery of services requires regular monitoring by committees to address the slow pace of implementation of development projects, stalling of projects, lack of achievement of the planned targets and misappropriation of funds. Hon. Speaker, if you allow me to just re-emphasise that particular point, effective delivery of services requires regular monitoring by committees. Those committees are just what you were referring to here when you spoke about the presence of Chairs and Vice-Chairs of committees at least during the first one hour to address questions and statements in the House, and goes beyond the plenary to the business that we transact in the committees of the House. Therefore, I want Members to take note of the role that we are being called upon to play as honourable Members of this House. As legislators, the Constitution gives us three principal roles to play including oversight and representation. We must take up that role of oversight within our committees and, more so, the oversight of the implementation of the budget that we approve in this House. I know many Chairs of Committees are aware of the issues that are there in terms of implementation. To enable this process, Departmental Committees will be required to undertake oversight and table status reports on Budget implementation at the end of every quarter. In order to support this, I urge the House Business Committee which you chair to also prioritise the processing and adoption of those reports at the end of each quarter. I would further wish to bring to the attention of Members of the publications of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), particularly the latest Budget Watch which highlights the key issues and development targets that the Committees of this House should keep an eye on during the implementation of the Financial Year 2019/2020. It is good to mention that this"
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