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    "id": 1134073,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I second the Motion. This Bill used to be part of the County Allocation of Revenue Bill which was a mandate of this House. There was a court judgment that decided that the grants and conditional grants should not be part of County Allocation of Revenue Bill. That forced the Senate to draft a grants Bill. After deliberations, consultations with the stakeholders and all the work that this House did, there were rumours that the ‘lower House’ had said that this is a money Bill. If they considered it as a money Bill, then the County Allocation of Revenue Bill has been a money Bill all along. The same things we used to pass in that Bill are the same ones that are going in the grants Bill. The grants Bill takes care of conditional grants, donor grants and any other grants that is not part of the financing to the county and the share of revenue between the national Government and county governments. If the division of revenue cannot go through without the consent of the Senate, then it is solely the mandate of this House to initiate the grants Bill. As alluded by my Chairperson, we had a lot of consultation with several stakeholders including the National Treasury who should have told us if that Bill was a money Bill or not. The amendments that were brought by our sister House had nothing. Instead, it completely changed the substance of this Bill and as a result, I wish to second and urge this House to reject, in totality, the amendments brought by our sister House. I thank you."
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