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    "id": 531552,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Otucho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 12837,
        "legal_name": "Mary Emaase Otuch",
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    "content": "institutions, for example, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and the Controller of Budget, County Finance Bills and submission of budget documents in formats that were not approved by law as well as the absence of the Medium-Term Planning in the budget cycle. Additionally, the Committee observed that there have been weak methods used in the projection of revenue by counties. This resulted in unrealised revenues.Targets were not met by most counties. Therefore, it is important that national Treasury undertakes capacity building for counties to ensure that skills for preparation of financial Bills are available to devolved units. On the Division of Revenue Bill, in reference to the revenue sharing basis of the 2015/2016, the Bill begins by adding the following items to the 2014/2015 equitable portion of revenue availed to the counties: One is the allocation of personal emoluments for staff transferred to county governments from the State Department of Livestock Development amounting to Kshs466 million. Secondly, there is an allocation of Ksh935 million for village polytechnics previously under the Ministry of Education, Research and Technology. Another item reflected under the Division of Revenue Bill is allocation of Kshs545 million for functions transferred to county governments, vide Transition Authority Gazette Notice of March, 2014. This results in a new baseline figure of Ksh229.6 billion for the Financial Year 2015/2016. The resultant revenue figure of Kshs229.6 billion is then grown by a rate of revenue growth of 10.41 per cent. That amounts to Kshs23.9 billion before an additional allocation of Kshs4.5 billion to provide for salaries and allowances awarded to State and other public officers of the county governments by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) in the 2014/2015 Financial Year. This figure arrives at a total sharable revenue figure of Kshs258,008 billion. The Division of Revenue Bill further provides conditional grants to counties as follows:-It was also observed that some counties are still charging for maternal healthcare because they have never received these allocations. Going forward, those are areas of concern. We need to ensure that the money reaches all the counties. The Kshs4.5 billion is for leasing medical equipment. As a Committee, we noted that there is need for further consultation and a clear policy towards these engagements. It has come out clearly that most of the governors were not in agreement with the policy. Therefore, before we factor such figures in the Budget, it is important to have a clear policy and an agreement at all levels of the Government, so that by the time we budget, we know that money is going to be forwarded to the various counties for the intended purposes. The other item is the allocation for the Level 5 hospitals. There is an allocation for compensation for foregone user fees for health of Kshs900 million. There is also an allocation from the Road Maintenance Fuel Levy of 15 per cent amounting to Kshs3.3 billion. We then have the conditional allocations, which are loans and grants of Kshs10.6 billion."
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