Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 661 to 670 of 2343.

• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I was saying, consequently the Speaker of the National Assembly, pursuant to Standing Order No.149 (2), and the Speaker of the Senate, pursuant to their own Standing Orders, on 6th May respectively appointed hon. Sen. Lenny Kivuti, Hon. Amina Abdalla, hon. Sen. George Khaniri, Hon. Ronald Tonui, hon. Sen. Liza Chelule and Hon. William Kamoti to sit in the Mediation Committee and mediate on the disputed clauses. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: I would like to mention that we had a successful meeting and we agreed with the Senate on most of the clauses. The first contentious clause was Clause 10, which speaks to the membership of the Board of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). The amendment by the Senate suggested that we remove the representative of 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
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: the Attorney-General on this Board and replace the same with a representative of the Council of Governors. The Committee and this House rejected that amendment based on the fact that NEMA is a policy and co-ordinating arm of the Government of Kenya, and it is performing a national Government function. As such, we did not feel that there was any legal or constitutional justification for having a member of the Council of Governors on this Board. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: I am glad to report that during the mediation, the Members from the Senate and the National Assembly agreed that the replacement of the Attorney-General with the representative of the Council of Governors was not the right thing to do because:- view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: 1. the expertise that would be given by the Attorney-General cannot be provided by the representative of the Council of Governors; view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: 2. under Schedule Four, policy development and co-ordination are national Government functions that should not be micromanaged through a representative of the Council of Governors. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Having agreed to that, the amended clause now retains the Attorney-General under this clause and does not include a representative of the Council of Governors. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: The second clause that was in contention was Clause 20, in which the Council of Governors had recommended to reduce the two persons that were to be nominated by the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Water and Natural Resources in the Public Complaints Committee. This is a body to which members of the public can complain either against the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), any public body or anyone who is infringing on their environmental right. They recommended that one of those slots should be given to the Council of Governors. Our contention was that we did not want the Council ... view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: I am glad to report that the basis of that amendment, especially on the reports, was a misunderstanding in one of the clauses regarding a review of a plan and the production of a brand new plan. I am happy to report that we have now come to a middle ground on the time it takes for the counties to do their action plans and for the national Government to do its action plan. We have conceded to move from three years to two years. I am happy to also report that the Senate has appreciated that environmental reports cannot ... view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to reply by thanking all the Members who have contributed, and used kind words towards the Committee; they have appreciated that we need a mechanism that will enable us to avoid the mediation by having the originating House speak to the second House that is dealing with a Bill. Mine will be to recommend to this House that we make sure that we do not get pushed by persons who bring Bills to us late. In this case, we should not have been dealing with an amendment Bill but with a repeal Bill. ... view