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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "is a publication by our PBO. It gives very good highlights that would guide Members. I urge, especially Chairs of Committees, to ensure the clerks that are in charge of their Committees get each Member a copy of this Budget Watch document. That is so that they go through it and see what areas need focus. For instance, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning or the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock who are seated here, would see what areas to focus on. That is so as to ensure that it is not just the input during the Budget Estimates, but also that the output and targets are being achieved and that the projects that were identified to be implemented in this Financial Year are implemented. That is the most important role to us as Members of Parliament and Members of various Departmental Committees. It is what we can offer the population back in our constituencies – ensuring that each and every project is implemented. Remember our Budget is programme-based and project-based. We should make sure each project that was identified and whose resources were appropriated by this House is implemented within this Financial Year. That is so that even those which will not be completed within this Financial Year are, at least, started. As I conclude, the PBO will, in the coming days, circulate a framework highlighting key areas for Departmental Committees to monitor budget implementation in line with their mandates. I urge this House to support the office in this endeavour. Even as the framework highlighting the key areas the Departmental Committees will monitor comes, it is important to remind the Chairs of the Committees that, as much as we put in a lot of effort and time in the month of February from the time we start reviewing the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) to the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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