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    "id": 1232760,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "The same thing applies when it comes to the Ministry of Health. It is devolved to the counties, but we still see a huge budget that is in the Ministry of Health Headquarters. Why should we not facilitate our counties? Our doctors are suffering, they are now up in arms and they have threatened to go on strike in a few days. You ask yourself, why should that be? Why do we not start looking at what functions were transferred and which ones were not so that we transfer them? Therefore, the CRA was right to give us that information. The other reason I believe that the Kshs37 billion increment from CRA makes a lot of sense is the fact that when you look at the revenue itself, it has increased by more than 15 per cent. All they are asking for is the increment of the money going to counties to be at 10 per cent. That 10 per cent is the Kshs37 billion out of the Kshs370 billion that is currently owed. That percentage is still below the increment in the revenue that is being collected. It makes a lot of sense to actually give that figure of Kshs37 billion that will give Kshs407 billion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I wind up, it is so important that we allow the Committee of this House to have a healthy discussion with the other committee through mediation. Nothing acrimonious, just to discuss and see what needs to be transferred and which money needs to be spent from which level of Government because it is just a matter of movement of those funds. If we allow the movement of functions and the funding to follow the functions, we will not have to do anything more. We will not even touch the allocations that we are talking about in the analysis on the funds that should be catering for our debts, which we must pay. I support the national Government on that and any other functions that the Government would like to undertake. It will still be the same. However, let us allow the flow of the transfer of functions. That way, it will allow the functioning of the devolved government the way it is supposed to be according to the Constitution. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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