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    "content": "has never seen one kilometre of paved road. The first paved road that we will see is from the few shillings that this honourable House has voted for Mandera County. The same applies to Wajir and many other counties. They are seeing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines and dialysis machines in hospitals for the first time. It is sad that people can sit here and decline to give money to counties. They say we should leave it in Nairobi. We have left money in Nairobi for all those years and that is why we have nothing to show in our counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the little money that we have been able to allocate through mediation to counties is Kshs259 billion. That is what will be shared among our counties. The Second Schedule on the next page is on conditional allocation. Last year, the total was only Kshs1.8 billion. This year, the total is Kshs20,998,000,000. Of course, this includes Column G, conditional allocation for a County Emergency Fund which did not succeed during mediation. Amendments will be brought in to remove that. So, the total conditional allocation will come to Ksh16 billion. The amendments will come at the Committee Stage. There are four conditional allocations for each of the counties. These amounts are reflected in the Bill. On the conditional allocation for Level 5 hospitals; you can see there are 11 hospitals and the amounts are shown here. The basis for determining those figures is also provided for in the Bill. Members can refer specifically to the Bill to find out exactly how the conditional allocations for the respective Level 5 hospitals were arrived at. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the second column is C. It is on free maternal health care. This is provided for on page 69 of the Bill. As I mentioned, this is a transfer to the county governments on reimbursement basis. This grant will be distributed among the county governments on the basis of percentage contribution of the total number of maternal deliveries during the Financial Year 2013/2014. The total amount is Kshs4.298 billion. Each county will get an amount of allocation from this. Column D is on the conditional allocation for compensation for user fees which are foregone. This is a total amount of Kshs900 million. This is provided for. How that amount was arrived at is shown on page 71 of the Bill. It is for compensating the county governments for revenues which are foregone by not charging user fees in their county health facilities. We also have the conditional allocation for leasing of medical equipment to the tune of Ksh4.5 billion. For each county, that figure works out to Kshs95.7 million. It is equal because the same kind of equipment will be distributed to all the 47 counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our Committee and the Committee on Health have a date with the Cabinet Secretaries for the National Treasury and the Ministry of Health to explain the nature of these financial transactions. We want to see the documents and examine the contracts. We have invited them next week to appear before the Committee to explain this because of the issues that have been raised by the Council of Governors on the same."
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