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    "content": "to all the counties from July, 2018 to June, 2019 in proportions that are supposed to be disbursed to the counties on every 15th day of the month. The Senate received the Schedule on 22nd August, 2018, and it was tabled on 11th September, 2018. The Committee did not go through the three schedules that were presented. The First Schedule, which is the component of sharable revenue, had a few errors but they have been corrected. In terms of the totals and allocations going to the various counties, it has been tested and it is as per what was passed in the Act. We recommended that the First Schedule be approved with those small corrections. That was noted from the letter from the National Treasury but did not affect the totals. The Second Schedule, which is about conditional allocations from the nationally raised revenue, was supposed to be Kshs25.5 billion according to the Act. This included a component of Kshs9.4 billion for leasing of medical equipment. This has not been included in the Schedule because the national Government is supposed to pay those monies elsewhere. Again, the Committee raised concerns about Kshs9.4 billion, which we need to interrogate the National Treasury and see the equipment that has been delivered or supposed to have been delivered and if they are functioning and the actual cost and what we expect in the coming financial year in terms of the amount. The Third Schedule relates to the disbursement of conditional grants financed by loans and grants from development partners which should have come to about Kshs33.4 billion. However, in the Schedule, a figure of about Kshs4 billion, which was supposed to be funded by the Word Bank under Kenya Devolution Support Programme (KDSP) has not been distributed. The reason given is that there must be certain criterion which is performance-based and counties must meet some criteria before it is disbursed. As a Committee, we will be engaging the National Treasury to see how the disbursement will be done and what the criterion is. We realised that in the previous financial year, the same amount of Kshs4 billion was provided under the KDSP but only Kshs1.9 billion was disbursed to about 13 counties. That means that Kshs2.1 billion has not been disbursed. Again, we have to interrogate the National Treasury on why it has not been disbursed. Save for those small concerns, we have looked at the Schedule. As it is, it needs to be passed. We seek the approval of the Senate so that it is passed, so that counties can get money. The CARA, 2018, was assented to on 29th June, 2018. The national Treasury is supposed to, within 45 days, submit the Schedule to us but they did not do it on time. In fact, our Standing Orders also require that within 15 days after assent, we should have got the schedule. We have lost some time because now we are---"
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