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    "id": 719746,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Otucho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 12837,
        "legal_name": "Mary Emaase Otuch",
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    "content": "This Bill divides the national Government revenue into allocations for national Government and county governments. The Division of Revenue Bill, 2017 gives us the indicative shareable revenue, the national Government share of revenue and the county government equitable shareable revenue. In 2017/2018 Financial Year, the county governments allocations as proposed by this Bill, provides that the county governments shall receive Kshs323,756 million. That is an increase from Kshs 280,300 million in the last Financial Year, 2016/2017. There will be additional revenues. Besides the equitable share of Kshs291,136 million as indicated in the proposed Bill, there will be other additional allocations which include leasing of medical equipment which will be at Kshs4.5 billion. There is a proposed allocation of Kshs4.2 billion for the Level 5 hospitals. There is also the rehabilitation of youth polytechnics at Kshs2 billion. I am very passionate about this one because in the last financial year, we proposed in the Budget and Appropriations Committee that we ring-fence allocations for rehabilitation of village youth polytechnics. As we speak, in some of the counties, there was no allocation towards rehabilitation of village polytechnics because the Senate reversed the provision to ring- fence these resources to the village polytechnics. I want to urge Members that this time we must protect these polytechnics because they are in deplorable conditions and resources must go towards rehabilitating them. Some allocations will also be going towards compensation for user foregone fees which is Kshs900 million and we have monies that have also been set aside for the construction of county headquarters. According to the study that was carried out for all the counties across the country by Hon. Senator Muriuki, it was realised that certain counties do not have headquarters. So, monies have been allocated so that we have construction and so that we can bring all the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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