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    "id": 975491,
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    "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": " Definitely the Leader of the Minority Party is aware, because he was actively involved in the deliberations. However, the amendment, as I indicated, is signed by myself as the Chair and approved by the Speaker and is, therefore, properly before the House. However, the decisions on how to deal with the amendment is up to the House to listen to what I was saying, the rationale behind it and make an appropriate decision. All I can do as the Member of Parliament for Kikuyu and the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is to move the amendment and leave it to the House to make an appropriate decision. That is why I have gone to great length to explain to the House the rationale behind the amendment. I would only beg that you listen to me as I complete the last bit which I was explaining. Just by concluding on what the Leader of the Majority Party had said, we may desire to have more resources on paper at the policy level, but in reality the resources might not be available, that is what we want to do. As a matter of proper planning, as our Judiciary, Parliament and even the Budget and Appropriations Committee go out for public participation, we plan based on resources that are available. However, let me also clarify that what has been provided for under the ceilings is adequate to ensure that all the three arms of Government are able to offer their services uninterrupted. However, I did indicate that although we develop budgets for all the arms of the Government, still there is going to be a problem with the Executive development budget because there are cuts. If you read the Report, we express our concerns as a Committee that because of the hard-economic times we are even going to cut on the development expenditure. The same goes for the other arms of the Government. The Judiciary would be able to execute all their programmes through their recurrent expenditure, but their development expenditure will be cut and that also applies to Parliament."
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