Mary Emaase Otuch

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House:- The Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on its considerations of the Division of Revenue Bill, 2015 view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, following the introduction of the Division of Revenue Bill 2015, I hereby present to the House the Committees Report on the Bill as required in our Standing Orders. view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: The Bill provides for the division of nationally raised revenues between the two levels of Government as well as demarcating specific resources to be provided to the counties as conditional grants and the Equalisation Fund. view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker the Bill is accompanied by an explanatory memorandum as required by Article 218(2). The memorandum sets out an explanation of revenue allocation as The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: proposed by the Bill along with evaluation of the Bill in relation to the criteria mentioned in Article 203 of the Constitution and a summary of any significant deviation from the Commission on Revenue Allocation recommendations. The Committee has done this pursuant to Article 95 of the Constitution which provides that the National Assembly has the responsibility of playing part in the determination of the allocation of national revenue between the levels of Government. Specifically, Article 95(4) provides the mandate by which this House examines the Division of Revenue Bill by stipulating that:- view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: “The National Assembly – (a) determines the allocation of national revenue between the levels of government, as provided in Part 4 of Chapter Twelve; (b) appropriates funds for expenditure by the national government and other national State organs; and (c) exercises oversight over national revenue and its expenditure.” Hon. Speaker, it is therefore important to note that this financial year, both Houses of Parliament were involved in the processing of the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) which is the precursor of the Division of Revenue Bill that we shall be looking at today. In this regard, Sections 191 and 25(2) of ... view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: institutions, for example, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and the Controller of Budget, County Finance Bills and submission of budget documents in formats that were not approved by law as well as the absence of the Medium-Term Planning in the budget cycle. Additionally, the Committee observed that there have been weak methods used in the projection of revenue by counties. This resulted in unrealised revenues.Targets were not met by most counties. Therefore, it is important that national Treasury undertakes capacity building for counties to ensure that skills for preparation of financial Bills are available to devolved units. On the ... view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Adding this to the equitable share, the total allocation to counties in the Division of Revenue Bill amounts to Kshs283.741 billion. This is an equivalent of 37 per cent based on the 2012/2013 revenue numbers. The Committee took into account the salaries allocated to State officers by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission at devolved The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: level of Government with the inclusion of Kshs4.5 billion. The Committee, however, observed that this amount would not support the proposed principle of containing the wages at 35 per cent. It is important that all the Government agencies work in synergy to ensure that there are coherent policies in remuneration of public service workers. We should not continue to increase the wage bill, but maintain it at sustainable levels. view
• 25 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: The Committee further included the Fuel Levy Fund loans and grants in the computations. These resources have been provided in the Bill as conditional allocations pursuant to Article 202(2). These are national Government resources, which are additional resources to county governments. This comes from the national Government share to the county government. Looking at the vertical allocation, the Committee made the following observations: These are some of the activities that were undertaken by the Committee prior to formulating of the Division of Revenue Bill. The National Assembly organised public hearings in October 2014. The public views and recommendations are to ... view