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    "id": 1134070,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker Sir, upon receipt of the judgement, the Committee had to reengineer a framework and mechanism through which conditional grants would be disbursed to the country governments without violating the principles of the PFM Act. A legislative framework similar to the County Allocation of Revenue Act must be put in place to allow disbursement of funds to the counties. The Bill seeks out the information that was previously contained in the Second and Third Schedule of the County Allocation of Revenue Act. It is important to note that, for the current financial year 2021, counties have not received any disbursements under the conditional grants since there is no framework or mechanism to do so. Mr. Speaker Sir, on 8th December, 2021, the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget received communication from your office, communicating the passage of the Bill with amendments from the National Assembly. As requested via your communication, the Committee expeditiously considered the amendments on 14th December, 2021. On consideration of the National Assembly amendments to the Bill, the Committee observed that: 1. The effects of such amendments defeats the principle object of the Bill which is to deal with the question of disbursement of conditional grants to the county governments from the national Government and development partners. 2. Changing the Long Title and Short Title of the Bill to refer to the additional allocation under Article 202(2) of the Constitution would leave out conditional allocations from the proceedings of loans and grants from development partners, which forms part of the transfers to the county governments. Mr. Speaker Sir, the deletion of the First and Second Schedule to the Bill would amount to complete erosion of the substrum of the Bill and its objects. Inclusion of the"
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