{"id":807337,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/807337/?format=json","text_counter":298,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":{"id":1835,"legal_name":"Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah","slug":"anthony-kimani-ichungwah"},"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to reply. Let me begin by thanking Members for the very good contributions that they have made to this Bill. A few things: I did hear Hon. Atandi mention that there was no money allocated to the Senate to carry out their monitoring and evaluation duties. Indeed, as the Speaker had said, it is good to be attentive when we are considering these Estimates. We did allocate, and I spoke to it at some point when the Leader of the Majority Party was objecting to the allocation of that resource, a figure of Kshs500 million towards the monitoring and evaluation fund for our Senators to enable them to carry out not just monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of these budgets in the counties but also to help them in issues to do with public participation and getting to inform the public on what issues have been budgeted for in each of their respective counties. The other issue that has been raised is the question of the formula. I did hear Hon. Kimunya articulate the issue of the formula. That is a matter, as I did point out during the consideration of the BPS, that this House needs to take very keen interest in. The formula on revenue sharing, be it equitable share or the other issues to do with fiscal responsibility, land area…. For instance, when you give 8 per cent to land area and 45 per cent to population, you find instances where, based on the 2009 census which was very controversial and there are areas to this day that we have never known their actual population as at 2009… There could be instances where counties have benefited with more money than they truly deserved because they tinkered with their figures in the 2009 population census. It is important this year, because we are moving towards another census in 2019, for Members and the country to take note to ensure that the numbers that are reflected are correct, not numbers that are being tinkered with for people to benefit because they know 45 per cent of these revenues will be shared on the basis of population. This Friday, the Commission on Revenue Allocation is launching the second marginalisation policy. I do not know how many Members have taken interest in getting to know what it is that CRA has done in that second marginalisation policy. I did mention during the BPS that it is important for Members of this House to take keen interest in what will be in that second marginalisation policy. We keep talking about issues to do with the Equalisation Fund and even this allocation, which to a large extent will be informed by what will come in that marginalisation policy. I must insist that we must make it our business as Members of Parliament 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."}