Amina Abdalla

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Another issue that we need to address is the fees paid for Environmental Impact Assessment. The fee is paid on the value of a project. A highly valued project might not have as much environmental impact as a smaller project with lower influences. Although these matters are in regulation, the Committee feels that the fees payable for Environmental Impact Assessment needs to be looked into. The stakeholders were very scared that if we kill the National Environment Council, how sure will we be that policy development will be done in a participatory manner? We will be urging the House to ... view
• 25 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: On the issue of voluntary environmental assessments, our Committee intends to propose that there be an award process for people who do good environmental work without being asked. view
• 25 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: The only change in institution that I have not spoken about is the fact that we are shifting the National Environment Trust Fund from being a statutory body under NEMA to an independent Fund. We are proposing streamlining of their functions. view
• 25 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: With those many remarks, I support. view
• 19 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I would like to join my colleagues in sending my condolences to the family and friends of Senator Otieno Kajwang’. I spent two terms with hon. Kajwang.’ As my colleagues have said, he was a very humorous man. More importantly, when you are a humorous person, people do not relate that with efficiency. I just want to highlight that when Senator Otieno Kajwang’ was the Minister for Immigration and Registration of Persons, you would bring a Question; if you got dissatisfied with his answer, he would follow the matter to the end. In fact, he emulated ... view
• 11 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to welcome your message regarding the Mining Bill and the misconception created by the Senate. This House amended 111 clauses of the Mining Bill in five hours, forty five minutes. There is no way you would expect that Bill would be finalized and the Vellum made available to the President to assent. The Senators, in their fight for relevance might have targeted the Mining Bill because of the vast interest in the Bill without looking at their facts that the Bill has no yet reached the President. By you telling them the same, ... view
• 11 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: However, I want us to appreciate that when the Mining Bill came to the House, it 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
• 11 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: did not concern counties. With the 111 amendments, I believe there may be some clauses that might require discussions in the Senate, but that does not mean that we should yield to these, in my opinion, very reckless remarks. I sometimes get very worried and wonder whether education sometimes is not a waste when it is taken to certain levels. The Leader of Majority Party and the Leader of Minority Party are lawyers. How can they appear on television and issue ultimatums to the President to bring back the Bill in 14 days? I will tell the President to remove ... view
• 11 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Another issue that is really troubling me is that the Senate, the governors and everybody who has issues with the national Government talks about benefits sharing. I never hear any of them speaking of cost- sharing or getting that benefit that they want to share. In fact, in my area, they have produced two Bills on revenue sharing on the natural resource sector. We have told them to go ahead. If they bring it here, we will deal with it. Why are they impatient; they want to go to court all the time? They went to court, they got an ... view
• 11 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: I want to urge my colleagues in the Senate, if I am asked, or if the President accepts all the amendments we have put in place, there may be merit if this Bill goes to the Senate. However, the way they are behaving, I would advise the President to remove the clause on benefit sharing so that it does not involve counties. Then we can see what they will do in the next few weeks. view