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    "id": 1350406,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, in June this year, we came before this House as the Budget and Appropriations Committee and this House passed the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill (National Assembly Bill No.23 of 2023) then. How it should be is that once we consider and pass such kind of a Bill and it proceeds to the Senate, then the Senate should consider it, and if there are any amendments to this kind of Bill, the Bill should come back to this House. If there is concurrence, we proceed. If we reject it, then we proceed to mediation. From the outset, the Budget and Appropriations Committee met for the last two weeks and considered the Report from the Senate. I stand here because this Committee actually rejected the amended version from the Senate. I make it very clear and I repeat for guidance of this House, that we rejected the amended version from the Senate. The additional allocations that we make to the counties are usually conditional and non- conditional. One of the premises on which the Budget and Appropriations Committee rejected the amendments from the Senate is on the library services budget. There are some 33 counties that have previously been considered with conditional grants to the county governments to take care of library services and salaries of the officers who run the library services. What happened is that there has been a case that had been sponsored by our governors for the last few years in regard to what constitutes equitable share. In that regard, some of these conditional and non-conditional grants were exempted by the courts to be considered under equitable share. What happened is that this House previously passed the non-amended version that then included that money for library services. What happened is that when it proceeded to the Senate, then the money was actually… Previously, we had allocated equally because any money that goes to the equitable share is subjected to the formula that is made by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). When this Bill proceeded to the Senate, they amended that Bill by adding Ksh424 billion, money they are considering as conditional grants to library services. What we are literally doing is to double allocate money for library services because this House had allocated that money. It was then divided equally because once it goes to the equitable share according to the judgement of the courts is that this kind of money is subjected to the formula. However, upon proceeding to the Senate, they proposed to add an equivalent amount."
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