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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On behalf of the members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and as mandated by Article 221 of the Constitution, Section 39 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012, and Standing Order No. 240B, it is my pleasure to move that the Appropriation Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 31 of 2021) be now read a Second Time. As I move, I want to remind Members that there will be a lot of repetition because we did this when we were doing the Budget. We also did it when we were doing the Committee of Supply. So, most of these issues that we will be canvasing today are issues that we have already dealt with. All what we are doing today is to give the legal anchorage of what we passed through the resolutions. Members, of course, may note that the resolution was passed on Thursday, 17th June 2021, through the Committee of Supply which approved the Expenditure Estimates for the Financial Year 2021/2022. Pursuant to the provisions of the National Assembly Standing Order No. 240 B(2), upon approval of the budget estimates, I am required, as the Chairperson, to introduce an Appropriation Bill. We are giving the legal instruments so that monies can now be disbursed to the various Ministries or agencies. In reviewing the Appropriation Bill, 2021, the Committee held one meeting where extensive deliberations were held. Arising from those deliberations, the Committee made the following observations: First, that a sum of Kshs1,495,000,000,000 is to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund for the services and purposes for the year ending 30th June 2022, while the Appropriation-in-Aid will account for Kshs446.2 billion. Second, the allocation for public hearing domiciled in the National Treasury be moved to respective implementing Ministries as well as allocation of Kshs25 million for the New Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU) that was wrongly placed, and that needs to be moved to Kenya National Trading Corporation. In this regard, I would like to inform the House that I will be moving some amendments in the Committee of the whole House. On the public hearing, we have a kitty of Kshs1.2 billion which, of course, each and every year, we allocate to 12 counties. I am happy that my predecessor and his team were able to cover the entire country. So, in this financial year, each and every county in the Republic has been covered in the public participation. We usually allocate Kshs100 million per county. It is the prerogative of the counties to make sure that they provide the details of the projects that they would want to implement. I am happy to report to this House that we have a report which I will also table. Third, despite the Cabinet Secretary directing, during his public pronouncement here of the Budget policy highlights and revenue raising measures for the national Government, that all pending bills by the national agencies be cleared immediately, they continue to present a significant challenge in almost all sectors of the Budget. This has a negative impact on the 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."
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