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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "Yes, but the time remaining is around four minutes. However, thank you for this opportunity to support this Bill. I congratulate Sen. Hamida for coming up with this very timely Bill. The amendment to The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.40 of 2023) is timely. What ails our counties or the devolved units, is the lack of systems and structures that work. Our counties are still grappling in the dark. A lot of them need a lot of capacity building. On the issue of capacity building, Sen. Hamida, I do not know how you will include this in this Bill. What is ailing our counties may not be the lack of manpower or even goodwill, but the necessary capacity. When she proposes that a revenue collection system be created and that the National Treasury will liaise with the county treasury so that there is a transparent system in place and an adequately secure system which is also simple to understand and verifiable, it will go a long way to cure what ails our counties. Reporting to the county assemblies is also very good. This is because they are the people's representatives and the first level of oversight before the report is submitted to the Senate. We have met many Government agencies, including the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IRGTC). We have seen that the Transition Authority (TA) to IRGTC are still labouring to see how to get functions transferred from the national Government to the county governments to get adequate resources. In the Committee of Education, counties are struggling to pay Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) teachers and establish the ECDE centres. Today, we were discussing in the Committee of Education that ECDE is not just the education part of it. It is also the development of the child. There is a proposal that in ECDE centres, immunization of the young ones should take place. Therefore, the counties need adequate resources for the devolved health functions."
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