Section 40, The Public Financial Management Act, 2016

(1) Parliament may not alter the State budget laid by the Minister in a way to increase the total expenditures from the Consolidated Fund proposed under the State budget. (2) The Speaker may, by resolution of Parliament, hire temporally, or permanently a small core of technical staff to assist in gathering information, making research and analysis on issues pertinent to its deliberation and resolution on the budget submitted to Parliament by the Minister.