All parliamentary appearances
Entries 1011 to 1020 of 6175.
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Committee in the said Report.
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
I want to request Hon. Sankok to second the Motion for agreement with the Report of the Committee of the whole House.
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Irrigation (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 12 of 2021) be now read the Third Time.
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I move Third Reading, I want to thank the Committee and the House for the expeditious processing of this Bill. Members are aware 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.
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
this is a 2021 Bill, but it has been processed and completed in good time so that we can sort out the irrigation sector. I want to commend the Vice-Chair of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Hon. Sophia Abdi, who has this afternoon taken us through these amendments with clarity such that Members were able to fast-track them.
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
I beg to move and request Hon. Dr. Nyikal to second.
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I really wish that the Members who have talked today would have been here yesterday, when I was moving the Bill. This is because they would have understood the rationale for repealing this Bill. The Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare carried out public participation and when they presented their Report yesterday, they came up with the same conclusion that the Bill should be repealed. First of all, I sense some confusion through the contributions this afternoon that, perhaps, we are doing away with the Social Assistance Fund or the Social Assistance Program. ...
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
Okay. My apologies!
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
My apologies. I think I had already quickly changed and said people living with disabilities. That is an old term but no disrespect. We have all those groups of people who are beneficiaries of this Social Assistance Fund and they are scattered between different ministries. The whole design was to get the Government to actually go into the villages and gather those people through the chiefs and different district commissioners' coordination and then they are registered and provided with assistance. By creating this one department into an authority, you are making it a super authority that will have presence The ...
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22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly:
in all the villages to gather this information. That is because the rest of Government will not operate with authority. Those are some of the operational challenges that were found that once you create this authority, you will need it to have offices in every village where there is a person living with disability, a vulnerable child and an older person so that they can collect that information and bring it centrally as an authority. If you are going to use the rest of Government to get all this information for the authority, then you do not need the authority. ...
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