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    "content": "manner. One of the lessons learnt out of devolution was that we probably should have costed the functions that were transferred to the counties. The Committee, in its report concluded that the issue of costing of functions has been overtaken by events. However, how do we decide that 15 or 45 per cent is enough as proposed by other political quotas? As proposed by this House itself where we believe that we need to give this 40 to 45 per cent to counties, the general feeling is that the devolved functions cannot be adequately covered by 15 per cent. The Senate is an institution that protects and defends the interests of devolved governments. We are not saying that we give counties 45 per cent of sharable revenue. We are just saying that let it increase by the actual increase in revenue which is captured here as 13 per cent. As I conclude, I wish that the Mover of this amendment would have also touched on the conditional allocations. This is because the BPS has stuck to - I think - three types of conditional allocations. The CRA had broadened out the conditional allocations to counties. There was one that I found very attractive; making a conditional allocation to counties to be able to finance educational infrastructure in primary and secondary schools. We spend our weekends and all free time in counties raising funds for primary and secondary schools because this money has been put in the hands of Members of the National Assembly. How I wish we could make a conditional allocation to counties in order to improve education infrastructure in primary and secondary schools. How I wish the Mover of this amendment would also agree that the growth in conditional allocations should be consistent with the growth in revenue. This is because CRA had proposed a growth in conditional allocations at the same rate of 15.09 per cent. There is the exception of leasing of medical equipment where we do not expect an increase in the cost because it is something that is signed upfront. However, things like support to Level 5 hospitals, reimbursement on some of these costs like maternity fees and so on; how I wish we would have agreed to increase those allocations by a similar percentage. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this amendment as read by the Mover: That, we increase the conditional allocation on the basis of average actual revenue performance and as captured on page 24 of the report of the Committee, which indicates that it should be 13 per cent."
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