Parliament’s legal committee halts consideration of rationalisation Bills

The Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee has halted the consideration of rationalisation Bills under its docket, after MPs discovered that the certificate of financial implication issued by the Ministry of Finance didn’t indicate the cost implication of abolishing or merging some agencies. This followed a concern raised by Ibrahim Ssemujju, the MP for Kira Municipality who pointed out that although section 76 of the Public Finance Management Act 2015, stipulates that a certificate of financial implication must include the revenue estimates any bill would have on the economy, the certificates issued by the Ministry of Finance on rationalisation Bills did not indicate any cost implications, yet there will be need to compensate the affected staff. “You see the framers of […]