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    "content": "Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). We have also recommended that the relevant spending agency expedites the production of a new Household and Budgets Survey, to replace the2005-2006 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey, whose statistics Members felt, are now outdated. Those are the same statistics we have just used even in the criteria for revenue allocation and we thought it is important that it should be updated. Regarding the transfer of functions and revenue sharing, the Committee recommends as follows: That all the devolved functions together with the resources tied to them on health and agriculture in particular, currently being performed by the national Government, be immediately sent or cascaded down to the counties. We have noted that there are still functions that have actually gone to the counties, but for which resources are still being retained in the national Government. We are making a very deliberate Statement here that the national Government, in preparing the estimates, should be careful not to provide for funding for functions that have already been transferred to the county governments. We have also noted that, the Revenue Growth Factor will be used to determine the amount of revenue that will go to the county governments is 10.4 per cent, which is an average of the last three years. However, we are recommending that Revenue Growth Factor be adjusted to between 12 and 15 per cent, over the medium term which is consistent with average historical ordinary revenue growth. The conditional allocation set out in the BPS be maintained and enhanced to reflect the usual expenditure inflation to safeguard the real cost of implementing. For example, the conditional allocation that was provided for Level 5 hospitals, this year we expect because of inflation factor alone, it should be increased. We have also recommended that the 2015-2016 budget ceiling for the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) be enhanced, to enable both the Senate and the National Assembly carry out their oversight functions effectively. To enhance oversight of devolved resources, including the county governments, we recommend the Auditor-General, the EACC, the Senators and all other oversight institutions be provided with sufficient financial resources to enable them check inefficient spending and misappropriation of resources at the counties. Those are the recommendations and I want to take the opportunity to thank Members of my Committee who worked very hard, in a very short time, to review this Report. I also thank the relevant departmental committees because they had a one day period to go through and come up with the recommendations and observations on the various sectorial policies that are contained in this document. Lastly, I want to thank the Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary of the National Treasury, who appeared before the Committee and also helped us to understand this document better. I also want to thank the Office of the Speaker and the Clerk of the Senate. I want to urge the Members to adopt this Report which contains the input from the relevant committees, so that it can inform the National Treasury in determining the appropriate allocation of resources both at the national and county government level. I beg to move. I will be seconded by the Senator of the great County of Makueni. 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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