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"content": "to be able to use part of the machinery supplied to that hospital and which the County Government of West Pokot is still paying for to the vendors. 6. Unequal development of school infrastructure: Many public primary schools are facing challenges with regard to infrastructure such as lack of enough classrooms, lack of power and other basic facilities. Some schools are still mud-walled and in dilapidated states. 7. Managed Equipment Services Programme under the Ministry of Health: It was observed that most hospitals in the counties that were visited have utilised the MES efficiently, but some are unable to utilise it due to lack of power as well as requisite personnel and inadequate space. Notably, the MES equipment is not used in West Pokot Referral Hospital reportedly due to lack of a transformer in the vicinity of the hospital. In other places, the water available is not fit for use in the machines. These challenges have made it difficult to fully utilise these equipment in some regions. There are some regions we visited and they did not have filtration systems to convert hard water into soft water for use in the dialysis machines that have been supplied to these hospitals. 8. Lack of extension services: Many farmers, notably the rice-growing farmers in Mwea as well as farmers in Tharaka Nithi require agricultural extension services, but these are lacking and county governments in the areas need to hasten efforts to provide the extension services, this being a devolved function. At a policy level, the Ministry of Agriculture needs to work together with the county governments to ensure that extension services are available to our farmers. Moving on to the Committee’s recommendations, having considered all the above matters, the Committee recommends as follows: 1. On policy recommendations, public hearings on the Budget be conducted after the Budget Review and Outlook Paper has been submitted to Parliament so that the projects arising from public consultations are included in the Budget before the Budget Policy Statement is finalised. This House should, therefore, amend the PFM law to ensure that public participation on the Budget is conducted in the months of October and November every year. We do expect, if we are able to do this, to conduct public hearings on the next financial year of 2019/2020 by October/November of this year. 2. That, given the large projects being initiated by the national Government with contractual agreements which Parliament only gets to know about later, any contractual agreement worth more than Kshs1 billion should be pre-approved by Parliament beginning 1st July 2018. 3. That, given the importance of finalising ongoing projects, particularly in infrastructure, manufacturing and agricultural sectors, resources allocated for these projects should be ring-fenced and a proper monitoring and evaluation framework be put in place to ensure that these projects are completed within the stipulated timeframe. Any budgetary changes within the year should not affect projects related to manufacturing unless substantial reasons are provided along with a plan on how this will be mitigated. This is to forestall cases that we have seen of very many stalled projects that are important and critical for the growth of our economy especially in the manufacturing sector that ought to spur not just economic growth, but also create job opportunities for millions of our employed youth. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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