{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=141684","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=141682","results":[{"id":1433241,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433241/?format=json","text_counter":511,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Vote 1095 agreed to)"},{"id":1433242,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433242/?format=json","text_counter":512,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"VOTE 1104 – STATE DEPARTMENT FOR IRRIGATION"},{"id":1433243,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433243/?format=json","text_counter":513,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THAT, a sum not exceeding Ksh23,382,162,500 be issued from the Consolidated Fund to complete the sum necessary to meet the expenditure (Recurrent and Development) during the year ending 30th June 2025 in respect of Vote 1104 (State Department for Irrigation)."},{"id":1433244,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433244/?format=json","text_counter":514,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Martha Wangari","speaker_title":"The Temporary Chairlady","speaker":{"id":13123,"legal_name":"Martha Wangari","slug":"martha-wangari"},"content":" Member for Sigowet/Soin."},{"id":1433245,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433245/?format=json","text_counter":515,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sigowet/Soin, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Justice Kemei","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Chairlady, as I support the amount of money dedicated to irrigation, I want to express one disappointment. In this country, we cannot continue relying on areas with sufficient rainfall to improve on our crop and livestock production. We must move towards irrigation technology. Looking at the pace at which we adopt The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1433246,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433246/?format=json","text_counter":516,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sigowet/Soin, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Justice Kemei","speaker":null,"content":"irrigation technology, I am really worried that we may not be able to utilise the potential of the marginalised areas of this country. Those areas can provide enough food for our country, if only we can provide them with water. Secondly, we are not adopting biotechnology. If we improved on irrigation technology and biotechnology, we will be able to feed this country from the lands that can support those two technologies. Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I support."},{"id":1433247,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433247/?format=json","text_counter":517,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Martha Wangari","speaker_title":"The Temporary Chairlady","speaker":{"id":13123,"legal_name":"Martha Wangari","slug":"martha-wangari"},"content":" Hon. Junet."},{"id":1433248,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433248/?format=json","text_counter":518,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suna East, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Junet Mohamed","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Chairlady, the idea might be noble. We want to do irrigation in the country, but we have been allocating money to irrigation for the last 10 years. Show me one irrigation scheme that produces food for this country. We are allocating Ksh23 billion to irrigation at very difficult times when we are talking about instituting austerity measures and reducing the Budget. This is just money to pay contractors. The biggest corruption happens in the irrigation system. We are allocating money to Galana Kulalu, which is a failed project that has not produced even two bags of maize. Are we children? Why are we being taken for a ride? I beseech the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to remove this money from that State Department for Irrigation and take it to the State Department for Water, so that people can get water pans and wells. This money is only for recurrent expenditure in that Department."},{"id":1433249,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433249/?format=json","text_counter":519,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Hon. Betty Maina crossed the Floor without bowing)"},{"id":1433250,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433250/?format=json","text_counter":520,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Martha Wangari","speaker_title":"The Temporary Chairlady","speaker":{"id":13123,"legal_name":"Martha Wangari","slug":"martha-wangari"},"content":" Order, Hon. Junet. Hon. Members, even in the Committee of the whole House, you know what to do if you wish to cross the Floor. Hon. Betty Maina, you are totally out of order. You should do the right thing. Go to the Bar and bow. Do not cross the Floor like that. It is totally out of order. Hon. Junet, continue."}]}