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    "content": "(e) healthcare facilities which is compensation for foregone user fees which is Kshs900 million; (d) conditional allocation, these are loans and grants by donors to specific counties, is at Kshs10.6 billion; So, the total county allocation proposed in the Bill is Kshs283.741 billion which represents 37 per cent of the audited revenue of 2012/2013. The next part of the Bill explains what all these figures mean. I will take Members through a couple of them. Page 8 and 9 is explaining the figures that we have already gone through. Before I do that, I would ask the Members to look at page 10, which is the equitable share and how we arrived at the Kshs258 billion. This is on page 11, in the table No.1. This will show how we arrived at Kshs258 billion for the equitable share. First, we adopted that baseline of last year which was Kshs226 billion. Starting from there, we built up the figure for this financial year. The first item to be added was the adjustment of the Kshs226 billion of last year. The first adjustment was the allocation for personnel emoluments for staff transferred to county governments from State Department of Livestock Development that was costing Kshs1.46 billion; allocation for village polytechnics which were under the Ministry of Education was Kshs935 million and funds relating to county functions which were transferred especially for agricultural training centres and agricultural mechanization which was Kshs545 million. The adjusted baseline that we are using for last year is Kshs229 billion. For this year, they are adding two items which are adjustment for revenue growth of 10.4 per cent which comes to Kshs23.902 billion. Then there is adjustment for increases in salaries and allowances awarded by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission in 2014/2015, they have provided for Kshs4.5 billion which brings the total to Kshs258 billion. This is the basis on which they arrived at Kshs258 billion in this Bill. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the next page, we can go through the process of how they arrived at the conditional allocations. The first conditional allocation is the free maternal healthcare of Kshs4.2 billion. This grant is a transfer to the counties on reimbursement basis upon confirmation that the county governments had provided maternal healthcare services, which they also provided last year. This is an amount of Kshs4.2 billion strictly on the basis of the services that have been provided by counties for maternal healthcare in their facilities. The second is the conditional grant to facilitate the leasing of medical equipment of Kshs4.5 billion. This grant is intended to facilitate the leasing of modern specialized medical equipment in at least two healthcare facilities. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our Committee had raised some issues on that lease of medical equipment and Members expressed oncern on that. We have agreed that we will hold a joint meeting between the National Treasury, the Ministry of Health and our Committee on Health to discus that matter but the provision for this year is Kshs4.5 billion. Then there is a conditional grant for Level 5 hospitals of Kshs2.064 billion. Last year, we provided for a figure less than this of about Kshs1.8 billion and this year, the Bill is proposing that they provide Kshs2.064 billion. The important point to note is that Level 5 hospitals still face many challenges. We had representation from the Governor in Kisii on Tuesday and from Nyeri, Machakos 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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