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"content": " Next Order. You may proceed, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. To suspend the Sitting of the Senate is an extraordinary issue and we are doing this to appeal to God. I, therefore, want your direction on this. Is it possible for all the luminaries of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), who will be at the prayer meeting tomorrow, to find it in their hearts to forgive Gloria because God is a God of second chances? I say this because---"
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"content": " Sen. (Dr.) Boni, kindly take your seat. Clerk, proceed to call the next Order, please. Chairperson, Standing Committee on Finance and Budget, you may proceed."
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"content": "ADOPTION OF REPORT ON COUNTY GOVERNMENTS (ADDITIONAL ALLOCATIONS) CASH DISBURSEMENT SCHEDULE FOR FY2024/2025"
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the County Governments (Additional Allocations) Cash Disbursement Schedule for the Financial Year 2024/2025 laid on the Table of the Senate on Tuesday, 27th May, 2025, and that pursuant to Section 17(7) of the Public Finance Management Act, the Senate approves the County Governments (Additional Allocations) Cash Disbursement Schedule for Financial Year 2024/2025. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we passed the County Governments Additional Allocation Bill recently after a lot of controversy between ourselves and the National Assembly. Unfortunately, this has pushed us to the end of the Financial Year. The Committee on Finance and Budget has pushed to get the Cash Disbursement Schedule to guide the National Treasury to be able to release the funds approved within the current Financial Year. In the report of the Committee, we are recommending for approval of the Cash Disbursement Schedule as contained in the County Additional Revenue Allocation Act The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "(CARA). The National Treasury has accepted and presented that they will disburse the entire County Additional Allocation in May and June in order for them to comply within the current Financial Year, as we are already in the process of doing the same County Additional Allocation and other documents for the following Financial Year 2025/2026, including the Division of Revenue Act and other Instruments. We are requesting the Senate to approve the Cash Disbursement Schedule because this is an issue that does not have much controversy. It is just an instrument meant for the facilitation of release of the funds of the Bill as approved by this House and concurred by the National Assembly through a mediation process. If we get this Cash Disbursement Schedule for the County Additional Allocation approved in time, then we will have the opportunity for those funds to be sent to the counties in time before the closure of the Financial Year. Also, the county governments to factor in the current budget that they are proposing and the county governments will most definitely be unable to absorb within these less than 35 days left to the closure of the Financial Year. Since most of these funds are going to a special-purpose account in the county governments because they are conditional and non-conditional grants allocated for specific purposes within the County Additional Allocation, the money will not go through the normal processes. However, appropriation of the same will require to be captured in the budgets of the county governments before the closure of the Financial Year. That necessitates the need for us to approve the disbursement schedule to facilitate the flow of funds to be released to county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and request Sen. Sifuna to second. It is just a schedule."
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"content": "Hon. Speaker, I rise to second. Of course, I was expecting that the Chairperson of the Budget and Finance Committee would say a few words about the fact that from the first day that we came to this House, we have passed a disbursement schedule every financial year. The National Treasury has never complied with any of the disbursement schedules that we have passed. I do not know what confidence the Chairperson has that this ritual that we engage in every year has any meaning at all. County governors will tell you they have been receiving the disbursement of the share of revenue for February in May. Why do we engage in this ritual? I hope that the people who have been here before or longer can explain to us. Really, do we need to do this? Look at the time that is remaining in the Financial Year. The Chairperson of the Committee on Budget and Finance has rightly indicated how we disburse in two tranches. I highly suspect that it will not even be done as he has proposed. My view would have been that the National Treasury must be told to send that money in one tranche in this month of May, so that we do not have those stories of capacity to absorb or the time to absorb these resources. Otherwise, as I second, this ritual has never made sense to me because no one listens to us."
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"content": " Hon. Senators, we will now proceed to propose the question. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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