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    "content": "Revenue Bill that we shall debate under these conditions. In the next one, the timelines for various things should be followed. We would have developed legislation to ensure that Senators and Members of Parliament get involved in the crafting of development plans and strategies and then the county budget being in conformity with those development plans and strategies. This is really the ideal situation that we would want to see so that when it is passed and when we are now doing the oversight, we know what we are doing an oversight about. So, I would support those legislations. The issue that was brought by Sen. Orengo on the grey area about functions, of course, the Constitution talks about the levels of government being interdependent and there is no area where there is more interdependence between the National and the county government than the issue of functions. For example, even in the area of health, we are interdependent and I would like to encourage the State to ensure that just as every county must have a High Court, there are certain basic things that every county must have and one of them is a referral hospital. I am speaking on behalf of my people of Busia to say that Busia should have a referral hospital because we serve not only that big area but also the neighbouring communities from Uganda. Whereas a county may have access to a number of health centres everywhere, when it comes to complicated diseases and so on, a referral hospital must be near. Right now, I must say that people in my area tend to go to Eldoret Teaching and Referral Hospital when they are sick. They should not go that far. By the time they get almost there, some of them are almost gone and then they die. I would urge that every county must have a referral hospital. I would encourage, when it comes to infrastructure, that we identify how many kilometres of tarmac roads the various counties must have. That really becomes the responsibility of the national Government. We will make sure that we are given money to ensure that paved roads are within the counties. With those few remarks, I support this Bill."
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