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    "content": "measure of the extent to which you take into account any provision that must be made in respect of the public debt and other national obligations, now that the public debt is a very big issue. You cannot just tell the county ex cathedra that one of the reasons why we are reducing this budget to the counties is because we have a big public debt. What index are you using? What weight are you giving to public debt in allocating resources or reducing them? You must say the needs of the National Government determined by objective criteria. What are those objective criteria? They should come as a policy document or a sessional paper given to this House to approve. You must determine the fiscal capacity and efficiency of a county government. Have we assessed the fiscal capacity and efficiency of county governments and produced reports that can help us know why we are varying allocation of budget to counties this way or that way? Must developmental and other needs be much more important than the need to ensure that the county governments are able to perform the functions allocated to them? That is very easy. Go to Fourth Schedule, find out how much money is allocated to every function, both for the national government and counties, come out with the indices, publish them together with the rationale before you pass any budget and let us debate and reason about them. One cannot come here and tell us that they did this budget, but there are no figures or indices. This Government prides itself on being digital. Let us see how digital chemistry is used in actual budgeting. I beg to support."
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