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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Thank you,Mr. Speaker Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.48 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget concerning the status of funds donated by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) to support gazetted Level 2 and Level 3 health facilities in Kenya. In the Statement the Committee should- (1) Confirm that DANIDA has recently transferred to the National Treasury Kshs468,750,000, the first half of 2019/2020 allocation has own budget funds to support operations and maintenance activities in gazetted Level 2 and Level 3 health facilities in Kenya which the Agency has done since 2014. (2) Confirm that DANIDA has received audit reports for the Financial Year 2017/2018 in respect of 35 of the 47 counties. Out of this, only 20 have adequately utilized the funds and are cleared to receive the 2019/20120 funds, 15 have unspent balances as at 30th June 2018, 11 are yet to supply sufficient information to enable auditors complete audit reports and one has failed to account for KShs2.5 million and, if so, name the respective counties. (3) State the measures in place to ensure that the respective counties fully disburse the funds to the health facilities or return the funds to the Danish Embassy. (4) Explain the steps taken by the National Treasury to ensure that counties cooperate with auditors to enable them finalize audit reports on those funds. (5) Indicate the measures in place to ensure that funds donated under the current programme, which ends in 2020 are utilized effectively by counties and to also ensure that review of the program by DANIDA is in favour of continued support, which is badly needed in the health facilities. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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