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    "id": 429104,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for allowing me to make this contribution to the Division of Revenue Bill, 2014. I want to say that the main issue that many Members have raised is with regard to costing of functions. At one stage last year, we asked CRA and Transition Authority to give us the costing of functions that have been devolved to the various counties and, two years down the road, that has not been done. It is very sad. If we had done the costing of all the functions, we would be in a position today to know that, for the counties to deliver on those functions, they require this amount of money. At one point, many governors were moving round and saying that they wanted the revenue to be raised to this much. The question was that if you raise it to this percentage, then what are you basing it on? Even as we move to this second year of the Division of Revenue Bill, we are not yet sure how much money counties require to perform those functions. That is because last year after the elections, we delayed in coming up with the Division of Revenue Bill and even the allocation of the funds. Up to date, most of the funding to the counties has not been fully absorbed."
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