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"content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order 232(7) relating to presentation of the Budget Policy Statement and the Debt Management Strategy, this House resolves to extend the period for consideration of the Budget Policy Statement, 2020 by a period of seven (7) days from 27th February 2020. As I mentioned in the Statement that I read yesterday, the House is aware that we have been listening to departmental committees. We concluded that process today, having listened to the last Committee at 2.00 p.m., namely, the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. We are yet to meet with the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), which we intend to meet tomorrow. We will also meet the Auditor-General and the Judiciary tomorrow. Thereafter, we will meet with the National Treasury on Friday and retreat on the same day to Sunday to prepare our report on the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) and the Debt Management Strategy (DMS) for 2020. We will, all factors being held constant, table our report next week on Tuesday, 3rd March 2020. As you are aware, the PFM Act gives us only 14 days from the time the BPS and DMS Paper is tabled in the House. If you count the days from the time these documents were tabled in the House by the Leader of the Majority Party, 14 days lapse tomorrow, Thursday. As I have indicated, it was not practical given that this year we were interrupted by the unfortunate passing on of His Excellency the late President Daniel Moi. Therefore, committees had a very short time to consider the BPS and DMS Paper. We are all aware that there is effort to amend the Act to, at least, provide more time to allow departmental committees and other stakeholders to engage more meaningfully than just the 14 days. The proposal was to have it extended to about 28 to 30 days to mid-march, so that committees can have adequate time to consider the BPS. I, therefore, want to ask that the House supports this extension of time and hopefully we will do this and complete it by end of next week by having it approved hopefully by Wednesday or Thursday. Thereafter, the Division of Revenue Bill will be published. Hopefully, we will consider and finalise it the week after. There are also indications that there is likely to be a second Supplementary Budget this quarter, which we must consider before we get the final Estimates for the Financial Year 2020/2021 by the end of April. With that, I beg to move. I request the Leader of the Majority Party to second."
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