{"id":1012558,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1012558/?format=json","text_counter":237,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Matungulu, WDM-K","speaker_title":"Hon. Stephen Mule","speaker":{"id":2321,"legal_name":"Stephen Mutinda Mule","slug":"stephen-mutinda-mule"},"content":" Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to add my voice on this Bill. From the outset, I urge my colleagues that we move with speed to finalise debate on this Bill, so that it can be assented to for the counties to get money. I want to confine myself to the issue of conditional grants to county governments. It is high time we came up with a very clear follow-up mechanism for the conditional grants that go to the counties. If you look at the entire Bill, the conditional grants are about monies going to the Level 5 hospitals. For the last five or six years we have been giving conditional grants to Level 5 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."}