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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "we would require that they follow the Public Finance Management Act and use the 70 to 30 ratio, which is what the national Government is using. Seventy per cent recurrent and 30 per cent development for counties is not good enough. What will be good enough for the counties is a 50 to 50 ratio. As we go to election of governors, it will be important for us to look for governors who are going to spend a lot of their money on development and less money on recurrent. Employment at the county-level has reached a crisis level. We now have a staff at the county level on almost every imaginable job. That is not acceptable. Although jobs are important, it is more important to spend money on agriculture, healthcare, education, county roads and water. Hon. Speaker, allow me, as a Jubilee coalition Member, to celebrate the steps that my coalition and Government has made in terms of devolution. It is extremely admirable for the Jubilee Administration to have put 37 per cent of the funding in the county government. That shows our commitment, belief and continued support for the new Constitution and the devolved governments. If the devolved governments could take up the challenge that they have been given by the national Government, we would see the strides that the country needs to make in terms of development. It is regrettable that even with the disbursement of all these monies, we may not see as much development as we want to see. That is the challenge that this House has. Today, we pass the Division of Revenue Bill. We give the allocation that will go to the counties but this National Assembly must continue to pass laws that guide devolution in our counties. Hon. Speaker, as you know, the Health Bill is still pending. We cannot continue financing healthcare without the necessary legal framework. What we have are monies going to counties without sufficient legal framework and rules to guide the counties on how to spend them. A time has come for this House to stop entertaining the sort of Motions like the one on censure of the Speaker and every other matter that does not make sense, so that we can dedicate more time to passing the health Bill, which makes a lot more sense for our country. On the question of the formula, I come from a county that has continued to receive lower levels of allocations. The first generation formula has served the country for two years. It is now time to allocate funding to the counties on the basis of the new formula. The second generation formula has taken lessons from the first generation formula. In particular, I celebrate the introduction of the Human Resource (HR) component of the second generation formula. The county governments have inherited former national Government personnel who were located at the former district headquarters. The Nyeri County Government is an example of one of those counties that have inherited staff that were working for the national Government within former Central Province. Those counties need to be cushioned with a HR component, which the second generation formula of revenue allocation has. Hon. Speaker, even as we pass the Division of Revenue Bill, we should ask the Senate to hurry up the consideration of the second generation formula and bring the same to the National Assembly for consideration, so that the second generation formula can be applied in allocating resources to the counties. Aware of what we have said previously, and aware that the Bill has to be disposed of today, I would like to request that in year three of devolution, with the funding that we 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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