11 Sep 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Mediation Committee on the Division of Revenue (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.59 of 2019) laid on the Table of the Senate on Wednesday, 11th September, 2019 and pursuant to Article 113 of the Constitution and Standing Order No. 161 (3) of the Senate Standing Orders approves the mediated version of the said Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Division of Revenue (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 59 of 2019) forms the basis of the shared revenue between the two levels of Government. The Bill ...
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11 Sep 2019 in Senate:
(a)That before the next Division of Revenue Bill, 2020, there shall be a proper disclosure on the costing of equipment under the MES programme; (b) Parliament shall establish a Special ad-hoc Joint Committee on MES to conduct a thorough investigation and table a report in Parliament for approval. The ad-hoc Committee should table the report before the end of the 3rd session of Parliament. (iii)That the allocation to the Water Towers Protection and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Program for Financial Year 2019/2020 be Kshs880 million. (2)The Budget and Appropriations Committee of the National Assembly and the Senate Standing Committee ...
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11 Sep 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are aware that the mediation did not go as planned. However, we will fight another day. All is not lost. This is because the initial figure of Kshs310 billion was published by the National Treasury and from the first Bill by the National Assembly. However, we brought the figure to Kshs316.5 billion. We wanted more but due to the fact that we are three months into the financial year, it is only proper that we, the Upper House, be sober enough to overcome this. However, we should proceed with the matters that are before us so ...
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11 Sep 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Division of Revenue Bill shall come into force upon publication in the gazette. There was an attempt this morning from some quarters to make it retrospective and deem to be effective from 1st July which would have been serious. This Bill will only be effective after it has been gazetted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and ask Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. to second.
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8 Aug 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me thank Sen. Linturi for bringing this Statement. This matter of infrastructure projects in counties is one that we have been dealing with in the Committee on Finance and Budget. There is no control in 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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8 Aug 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me thank Sen. Linturi for bringing this Statement. This matter of infrastructure projects in counties is one that we have been dealing with in the Committee on Finance and Budget. There is no control in 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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8 Aug 2019 in Senate:
counties as far as what their priorities are. In the first two years of existence of the counties, everybody went on a spending spree of building infrastructure projects. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it was very clear from the advice they got from the CRA that in the first five years, they should not undertake large infrastructural projects. The SRC came up with a plan for them to rent offices at that time. Fair enough; I think offices, county headquarters and assemblies were necessary, but the differential in counties was surprising. In fact, our attention was drawn to a lot of ...
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8 Aug 2019 in Senate:
counties as far as what their priorities are. In the first two years of existence of the counties, everybody went on a spending spree of building infrastructure projects. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it was very clear from the advice they got from the CRA that in the first five years, they should not undertake large infrastructural projects. The SRC came up with a plan for them to rent offices at that time. Fair enough; I think offices, county headquarters and assemblies were necessary, but the differential in counties was surprising. In fact, our attention was drawn to a lot of ...
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8 Aug 2019 in Senate:
listening. I am happy that the CRA has written to them, as a way of implementing the solution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will engage the CRA, CoB and Ministry of Transport, infrastructure, Public Works and Urban Development and see what the compliance is like, what the difficulties are and what needs to be done. I am sure there is a lot of greed for big projects. We are busy building bricks and stones in this country and nobody wants to do service delivery projects—
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8 Aug 2019 in Senate:
listening. I am happy that the CRA has written to them, as a way of implementing the solution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will engage the CRA, CoB and Ministry of Transport, infrastructure, Public Works and Urban Development and see what the compliance is like, what the difficulties are and what needs to be done. I am sure there is a lot of greed for big projects. We are busy building bricks and stones in this country and nobody wants to do service delivery projects—
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