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    "content": "were some counties with huge amounts of money that ended up in frequent travels causing a public outcry in the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our Committee felt that the proposed budget ceilings were appropriate in maintaining financial discipline in counties. Therefore, we went ahead and recommended and made amendment to the Public Financial Management Act. That amendment was brought here in the form of an amendment to the Act and passed. In the County Allocation of Revenue Act, 2014, there was an amendment which was passed bringing in budget ceilings. The Controller of Budget went ahead and enforced the circular from CRA to ensure that only those counties that complied with those ceilings would access money and those who did not would not access their money and therefore their budgets would not be approved. A number of counties complied but the county assemblies decided to go to court to challenge that circular. Hon. Senators will find the details of the case in their notes. There was a consent order that was filed in court by the three parties; the CRA, the Controller of Budget and the county assemblies. They entered a consent in court to allow them to withdraw up to 50 per cent of the money. That 50 per cent was based on the ceilings. They were allowed to withdraw 50 per cent for the first six months of this current financial year; from July to December. This was based on that ceiling. That is a consent they entered allowing counties to implement their respective budgets. A further consent was entered in January to allow them to move from January to March. A further consent of 25 per cent was also entered so that the total consent of the certain amount of money they have been allowed to withdraw is up to 75 per cent of their budget which is based on the ceilings. As we speak, the county assemblies---"
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