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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "You can go and canvass on that out there. Hon. Members, since I do not see anybody who has anything to proffer on this - on the Division of Revenue Bill and not about those other issues--- You can move Motions to discuss those ones. You know how it is done. You have come back only after a month. You cannot have forgotten these procedures just because of the activities of the last few days, however intense they may have been. Of course, the Member for Homa Bay County is comfortable. I can see she is very comfortable. She has not been very busy. Hon. Members, I wish to guide as follows: The Bill, having been defeated and having been in the name of the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, what is open to him and the Committee is to publish that Bill afresh. Other processes that the House may engage in, including waiver of certain timelines regarding the processing of any Bill, can only be decided when the Bill is published. It is because the Bill is not there as of now and yet, it is so grave that the counties have no basis for preparing their budgets; unless they go by this current year’s financial estimates. Since there was an increment - and that appears to have been the bone of contention as to the quantity or the quantum, I would advise that the Committee considers publishing the Bill afresh and then takes it through the normal processes. Indeed, we cannot also allow a situation in which the counties or the county governments are not able to run after 1st July 2017. We are lucky that the next year’s Budget was processed earlier because of the forthcoming general elections. That is the only saving grace. I think there is some time still, Hon. Mutava Musyimi. Your Committee could consider publishing a fresh Division of Revenue Bill. Maybe, you can do the consultation as much as you may wish to. I do not know who it is that you will consult but I think the ball should be back in your court to consider publishing a Division of Revenue Bill afresh. Hon. Musyimi!"
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