Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The other issue that we have tried to deal with is becoming too wordy and giving too many instructions on what a Government should do. For example, the Bill stipulates very many steps to be followed before a Minister can declare a mineral strategic. That is not how a government should work. We should not be tying the hands of a duly elected Government; that it should follow long procedures on how to declare a mineral strategic. If today we decide that sand is a strategic mineral, so be it because the Government has reviewed that and we do not ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The other issue that we have tried to deal with is becoming too wordy and giving too many instructions on what a Government should do. For example, the Bill stipulates very many steps to be followed before a Minister can declare a mineral strategic. That is not how a government should work. We should not be tying the hands of a duly elected Government; that it should follow long procedures on how to declare a mineral strategic. If today we decide that sand is a strategic mineral, so be it because the Government has reviewed that and we do not ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, having talked about the issues that we will be reviewing in this Bill, I just want to say that when we are doing a technical Bill such as this, the fact that 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
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, having talked about the issues that we will be reviewing in this Bill, I just want to say that when we are doing a technical Bill such as this, the fact that 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
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: we need internal expertise and capacity to help us is very important. All stakeholders come with their interests first. I want to give an example that made us get an expert who is not in the sector to enlighten us. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: we need internal expertise and capacity to help us is very important. All stakeholders come with their interests first. I want to give an example that made us get an expert who is not in the sector to enlighten us. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: There is a very big editorial mistake in this Bill. That is where it says that the size of a block is one to one hundred and fifty thousand, whereas the players in the sector had comments ranging to 200 amendments to this Bill. Nobody said anything about that discrepancy; a discrepancy that would have increased the sizes of the blocks owned by mineral rights owners by over one hundred and fifty times. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: There is a very big editorial mistake in this Bill. That is where it says that the size of a block is one to one hundred and fifty thousand, whereas the players in the sector had comments ranging to 200 amendments to this Bill. Nobody said anything about that discrepancy; a discrepancy that would have increased the sizes of the blocks owned by mineral rights owners by over one hundred and fifty times. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: As Parliament, we really have to invest for capacity in all these sectors so that we do not get input from people who are experts, but have interests that are not necessarily the interests that will help our country. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: As Parliament, we really have to invest for capacity in all these sectors so that we do not get input from people who are experts, but have interests that are not necessarily the interests that will help our country. view