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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second the Division of Revenue Bill. Article 218 of the Constitution requires that the Division of Revenue Bill be brought to Parliament two months before the end of the financial year. Although there were delays in other years, this year we are within time. The Bill was introduced in the National Assembly and passed on the 20th of March – only last week - and it is today before us. The Bill proposes to share Kshs1,688,492,000,000 in this current budget. This is from the ordinary revenues and the revenues that are raised. Out of this, it is proposed that Kshs1,369,792,000,000 be shared revenue to the national Government and Kshs314 billion allocated to the county governments. In the Financial Year 2016/2017, the total sharable revenue was Kshs1.380199 trillion and in the Financial Year 2017/2018 it was Kshs1.56028 trillion. Today, it is Kshs1,688,492,000,000. Out of that the national Government in the Financial Year 2016/2017 had Kshs1,093,890,000,000; 2017/2018, Kshs1,238,340,000,000 and this year it is proposed that the national Government gets 1,366,990,000,000. The Equalisation Fund has a lot of problems because ever since it was enacted in the Constitution, 2010, only Kshs1 billion of that money had been utilized. I remember the National Assembly appropriated about Kshs12 billion of that money in the Financial Year 2015/2016. There is a lot of balance still with National Treasury. This financial year, they proposed to put Kshs4.7 billion, which is 0.5 per cent of the total revenue. Madam Temporary Speaker, on equal share to the counties, we recall that in the Financial Year 2016/2017, Kshs280,309,000,000 was allocated to the counties. In 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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