Rev. Mutava Musyimi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: With respect to county financial management matters, although the fiscal performance of county governments has been improving over the last two years, the 2017/2018 Budget Policy Statement (BPS) has raised critical concerns on the ability of county governments to raise their own revenues noting that a number of counties are having challenges in revenue estimation and collection. It is reported that local revenue collection has been lagging below 70 per cent over the last two financial years. There is little diversification to different revenue sources with counties relying mostly on national Government transfers. My Committee also notes that there are ... view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Further, the management of health institutions in the counties has faced huge challenges of front-end financing. This is despite huge allocations to healthcare through various conditional allocations like free maternity care, compensation of user foregone fees, Level 5 hospitals and reimbursement for the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). The situation may be attested by the fact that funds for the health sector are all paid in the County Revenue Fund and, therefore, not ring-fenced for health institutions. To ensure that funding for county health institutions is assured and timely, there is need to develop a health fund for each county ... view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: for each hospital to ensure that each hospital receives a fair share of the reimbursement for the services rendered. view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, while we are on hospitals, let me also join the Member for Endebess, Dr. Pukose, the Vice-Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Health, in hoping that the current strike and crisis in the health sector will be resolved as soon as possible. view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: On this matter, finally, the key issue that needs to be addressed in the counties is the weak accountability and oversight processes. The national Government should, therefore, increase resources towards building necessary capacity on county financial management and oversight. That is not just a problem at the county level, but it is also a problem in other sectors of the Government. With respect to vertical division of revenue for 2017/2018 Financial Year, I have the following to say, that the BPS indicates that the total shareable revenue for 2017/2018 is Kshs1.45 trillion. It proposes to allocate Kshs1.24 trillion to the ... view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: finalisation of the Budget. As I said earlier on, this brings into question the credibility and, indeed, the integrity of the budget-making process, particularly the role of the Legislature as we seek to impact and influence strategic direction of the country in the budget-making function that we have. My Committee is concerned on the current structure of the medium-term expenditure framework sector working groups and recommends that an oversight sector working group be established to ensure that there is adequate participation in the budget-making process and the principle of separation of powers is adhered to. The national Government, through the ... view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Kshs900 million, conditional allocations for Level 5 hospitals of Kshs4.2 billion, conditional allocation for construction of county headquarters of Kshs605 million and conditional allocation for rehabilitation of village polytechnics of Kshs2 billion. I need to say something here. During the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC) discussions held earlier in the year under the very able chairmanship of the Deputy President, there was an agreement that money should be set aside and ring-fenced to force the hands of county governors and county governments to make sure that they do not ignore village polytechnics. We cannot just leave this at their ... view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Executive. We recommend that the national Government should urgently identify resources that can be channelled towards giving incentives to agriculture and manufacturing to expand existing capital base and unlock this country’s economic potential. We have said that more imagination and energy need to go into thinking and asking ourselves how we can grow the agriculture sector. We all know how important it is and how we can move the manufacturing sector forward. This is where the wealth of this country is and this is the only way to create the kind of employment that we need, especially for our young ... view
• 20 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker for indulging me. Allow me to inform my colleague, Dr. Pukose, and others who may hold the same view. I tabled the Report in this august House on behalf of my Committee and you, in your wisdom, directed that the Budget and Appropriations Committee considers the Report and brings its recommendations back to the House. We are working on the Report. view
• 13 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House:- view