{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=155730","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=155728","results":[{"id":1575482,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575482/?format=json","text_counter":3418,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Laikipia County, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Jane Kagiri","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to raise concerns regarding Supplementary Estimates III. I sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I am well aware that the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Social Protection submitted to our Budget and Appropriations Committee a request for reinstatement of Ksh500 million that was deducted from the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) in the Second Supplementary Estimates. It leaves me wondering why the request was not honoured. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the NGAAF serves the vulnerable, including women, widows, People with Disabilities (PwDs), and needy students. When we do not make it a priority to service the NGAAF, I wonder if it is our people we are trying to stifle and weaken. Second, we have a challenge with the money meant for sanitary towels. Let me teach this House a little Biology. Our female students in schools have monthly periods. It is one year later, and we are still seeking money for sanitary towels for our students. I think it is a dishonour! I believe that in this House, everybody is related to a young girl in this country, either as an uncle, a father, a brother, or even a grandfather. Let us be sensitive to the needs of our girls. We owe them their money. Such money is required urgently. Roads are not a bigger priority than the health of our students, women, and children! Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."},{"id":1575483,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575483/?format=json","text_counter":3419,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Last, I will listen to Hon. Peter Kaluma. I will rule on your point of order in a minute, Hon. TJ Kajwang’. Proceed."},{"id":1575484,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575484/?format=json","text_counter":3420,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay Town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Deputy Speaker, the response to the matter raised by Hon. TJ Kajwang’ is in Standing Order 207 of the National Assembly Standing Orders. This Standing Order provision, Hon. Deputy Speaker and Members, establishes the Budget and Appropriations Committee, designates its mandate and sets out the procedure by which it proceeds when executing its mandate. According to Standing Order 207(3), the Committee's functions are to discuss and review the estimates and make"},{"id":1575485,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575485/?format=json","text_counter":3421,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay Town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":"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."},{"id":1575486,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575486/?format=json","text_counter":3422,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay Town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":"recommendations to the House. Part (d) states thus: to examine Bills related to the national Budget, including Appropriations Bills. Of course, there are other mandates spelt out there. Hon. TJ Kajwang' is concerned with Standing Order 207(6), which says that the Committee shall invite Chairpersons of all Departmental Committees to make presentations during the consideration of the Budget. It is not denied before us that the Budget and Appropriations Committee invited all Chairpersons of Departmental Committees. If the Chairpersons, upon invitation, went before the Budget and Appropriations Committee without remitting the matter initially to their Departmental Committees for deliberation, that is a failure of the Chairpersons and a matter for the Chairpersons in terms of how they relate with their Committees and Committee Members. It is not, however, the reason to deny that Supplementary Estimates III is properly before the House, having been tabled last week. In fact, it is the business of the House to proceed, those chairpersons having been invited. If we have any issues regarding whether the Chairpersons presided or referred this matter to the Committee for consideration, those are internal Committee issues. What is required is that the Budget and Appropriations Committee invites the Chairpersons when they make their decisions on the Supplementary Estimates. It has been confirmed that it happened. Therefore, the matter is properly before the House, and we are ready to transact it straight away."},{"id":1575487,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575487/?format=json","text_counter":3423,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Thank you, Hon. Members. We are now repeating ourselves on this matter. It is very clear that the Chairpersons appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Right now, the Budget and Appropriations Committee has brought its report to the House. So, all the committees are sitting here, and it is now for you, as a House, to decide. We are not going to say it was the Budget and Appropriations Committee that decided without Committees. It is now before all the Committee Members who are seated in this House. That is what we have discussed. So, Hon. TJ Kajwang’ your matter has been dealt with. It is now before the House. We can proceed."},{"id":1575488,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575488/?format=json","text_counter":3424,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ruaraka, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. TJ Kajwang’","speaker":null,"content":" On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker."},{"id":1575489,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575489/?format=json","text_counter":3425,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. TJ Kajwang’, what more can you say, really? If it had not come before the House now, we would have had an issue. But, it is now before the House."},{"id":1575490,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575490/?format=json","text_counter":3426,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ruaraka, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. T J Kajwang’","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to appreciate you for the ruling that you have given. In fact, I have listened to the expert from Homa Bay County, and he has squarely touched on all those issues. The problem may or may not have been with the Chairpersons, who would have moved their Departmental Committees to scrutinise those responses. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."},{"id":1575491,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1575491/?format=json","text_counter":3427,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Members","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Put the Question."}]}