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Entries 2551 to 2560 of 17810.
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
come from that office. That is the position in law. I will agree with the Chair of the PAC and consult the Head of Public Service to know the progress, both for the Controller of Budget and the Auditor-General. They must be fast-tracked so that in the next one or two months, we can Have a substantive Controller of Budget and Auditor-General. You know the only items before the Chair of the PAC are audited accounts from the Auditor-General. So, if there will be no Auditor-General in the next one month, this man has no job. He will be redundant. ...
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. That is a very good ruling after what we deliberated last night in the House Business Committee (HBC). This Bill was read the First Time in April and we are yet to see a report. That is not the only Chair. The Standing Orders are very clear. Today, before the Liaison Committee, I have tabled 26 Bills in respect of which Committee Chairs have not brought reports to this House. They can go and check it. The Bills are both Government sponsored and private Members’ Bills. The Chair of the Liaison Committee, the Deputy Speaker, is ...
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Senate amendments to the Copyright (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.33 of 2017) be now considered. Hon. Speaker, I want to give a brief introduction of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.33 of 2017). The Bill sought to amend the current Copyright Act of 2001 in order to domesticate certain provisions of the Marrakesh Treaty which Kenya has signed. That Treaty facilitates access to all published works for persons, who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled which came into force on 30th September 2016. As the Constitution envisaged, ...
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
The Bill was passed on 25th July 2018 and forwarded to the Senate on 29th August 2018. Therefore, it has stuck in the Senate for close to a year, but it was passed by our colleagues in the Senate with amendments on 5th March 2019. Through the Committee Chair, we can confirm that the Senate proposed amendments to Clauses 5(b), 2(a) and 6 of the Bill are not offensive. We have no problem with them. We can deal with that matter later. I am aware that the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation considered the Senate amendments to the ...
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, the Senate amendments to the County Governments Retirement Scheme Bill (National Assembly Bill No.10 of 2018) be now considered.
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
The County Governments Retirement Scheme Bill, 2018 was passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, 17th October 2018, and thereafter sent to the Senate in accordance with the provisions of Article 110(4) of the Constitution. The Senate considered the Bill and passed it with amendments on Wednesday, 31st July 2019, which was close to a year later. People should not blame the National Assembly because the Senate has kept it for close to one year. We passed it in October last year and they are returning it in September.
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
The Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning chaired by Hon. Limo, who today looks like what we can call – if we borrow from the Executive – the super Chairman The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
of all the Chairs… I am sure he will not be the Chair of the Liaison Committee because if Hon. Cheboi hears that, there are a number of benefits that he will lose. The Chair of the Constituencies Development Committee must be a worried man this afternoon because he has lost a department.
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
This Bill sought to establish the County Governments Retirement Scheme as a mandatory scheme for all county government officers. It provides for the establishment of a Schemes Board of Trustees, the management and the administration of that scheme. It also makes sure that there is a scheme to offer lump sum payments and draw-downs of income to its members.
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11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly:
I am happy that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning considered the proposed Senate amendments to the Bill. This is only enriching the Bill. They are aligning the Bill with corporate governance and measures established under the Retirement Benefits Act of 1997. So, there is nothing much that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning has changed and they have agreed with the amendments of the Senate. This makes our lives easy. Hon. Mbadi will agree with me that this was one of the most controversial Bills, but it has come to its final conclusion. We should ...
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