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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "content": "As I continue, let me also say that the Committee was concerned and we took the opportunity to express this position. We are deeply concerned about the utilization of funds by the county governments. We get the sense that there is a lot of misappropriation of funds, misallocation of priorities and money that should be going to development is going to votes that, otherwise, will not benefit our people; examples are travel, capacity building and all those other vote heads that we read about. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Mediation Committee heard that the Senate Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget was working on mechanisms to set up a framework for county governments’ ceilings on expenditures. This would enhance accountability and expenditure decisions by county governments. The county assemblies were also working on building capacity for oversight. Hon. Deputy Speaker, by way of recommendation, my Committee observed that, indeed, there is an urgent need to unlock the matter and cause the County Allocation Revenue Bill, 2014 to proceed. The Mediation Committee observed that Level 5 hospitals are not provided for explicitly in the Constitution, hence the need to find a mechanism for dealing with matters in the future to enable them function appropriately and effectively. The Mediation Committee observed that there is urgent need for the health committees of the two Chambers to work together in consultation with other stakeholders to address issues of Level 5 hospitals, and determine the actual cost of running of each of these hospitals. The Mediation Committee considered the above issues as raised in the National Assembly and were agreed unanimously that we should adopt this Report as the Mediation Committee and bring it to this august House for consideration. As a matter of parliamentary courtesy, I would have wished to have convened a meeting of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to inform them of this decision, but time was not on our side. I therefore, wish to take this opportunity to ask that they understand that the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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