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    "content": "at the county level or grassroots level, they are not keen on just money getting to the grassroots level, but maendeleo mashinani. We can only achieve this, if more resources are allocated to development projects within the counties, rather than recurrent expenditure. We already have a Bill in this House that gives us an opportunity to discuss whether to increase the percentage of the amount of resources that will be allocated to development rather than recurrent expenditure from 30 per cent to 40 per cent or 50 per cent. I think that, that debate is healthy, but counties that are keen on ensuring that they have development at the counties do not need to wait for a law. It is the responsibility of every county government to ensure that they are able to provide services at the county level. A county government is a service providing entity rather than a hiring bureau. We need to allocate more resources to the counties. However, we, as the Senate, should not continue to go through the difficulty that we went through in the previous year and in this financial year in terms of passing these Bills. I think that it is more important for us to really consider how we deal with the constitutional mechanisms or provisions, so that we are able to give this Senate some The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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