{"id":141083,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/141083/?format=json","text_counter":195,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government has allocated my Ministry Kshs27.539 billion in the current financial year, of which Kshs23.381 billion is from the Government and Kshs4.158 billion from development partners, against a resource requirement of Kshs36.47 billion, as follows: (i) personnel-related Items will require Kshs13.5 billion, but we were only given Kshs11.7 billion, leaving us with a shortage of close to Kshs1.8 billion; (ii) our resource requirement for other operational costs is Kshs6,395,000,000, but in the Budget we have been allocated Kshs3,657,000, leaving us with a shortage of Kshs2,738,000,000; (iii) grants to our parastatals, which I have enumerated, will require Kshs9,796,000,000 but we have only been granted Kshs5,793,000,000, leaving us with a shortage of Kshs4,003,000,000; (iii) our requirement for GoK component to development projects is Kshs6,736,000,000 but the Budget guarantees us only Kshs2,169,000,000, leaving out a staggering figure Kshs4,566,000,000."}