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    "id": 1566689,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "(CARA). The National Treasury has accepted and presented that they will disburse the entire County Additional Allocation in May and June in order for them to comply within the current Financial Year, as we are already in the process of doing the same County Additional Allocation and other documents for the following Financial Year 2025/2026, including the Division of Revenue Act and other Instruments. We are requesting the Senate to approve the Cash Disbursement Schedule because this is an issue that does not have much controversy. It is just an instrument meant for the facilitation of release of the funds of the Bill as approved by this House and concurred by the National Assembly through a mediation process. If we get this Cash Disbursement Schedule for the County Additional Allocation approved in time, then we will have the opportunity for those funds to be sent to the counties in time before the closure of the Financial Year. Also, the county governments to factor in the current budget that they are proposing and the county governments will most definitely be unable to absorb within these less than 35 days left to the closure of the Financial Year. Since most of these funds are going to a special-purpose account in the county governments because they are conditional and non-conditional grants allocated for specific purposes within the County Additional Allocation, the money will not go through the normal processes. However, appropriation of the same will require to be captured in the budgets of the county governments before the closure of the Financial Year. That necessitates the need for us to approve the disbursement schedule to facilitate the flow of funds to be released to county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and request Sen. Sifuna to second. It is just a schedule."
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