Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2531 to 2540 of 6175.

• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take very brief time because I would want as many Members as possible to share the little time we have. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: From the outset, I support the Report of the Committee and congratulate them. This is because on Tuesday I tabled the Report, it was committed to them and they have worked hard on it and produced a Report, under very difficult circumstances. I want to assure this House that I was not happy with the bringing of the Third Supplementary, on Tuesday with only two days to process it. Today and Tuesday next week. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Be that as it may, I believe the House has already expressed itself. I will be taking this up with the National Treasury. This is so that, at least, we are left with enough free time for the House to interrogate and look at some of these things. Having said that, I have heard Members referring to Article 223. The more people talk about it, the more I am convinced that perhaps we have not quite internalised what it entails. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Just for the benefit of the Members who are here, Article 223 states: view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: “(1) Subject to clauses (2) to (4), the national government may spend money that has not been appropriated. In the two circumstance which is that the amount appropriated if— (a) The amount appropriated for any purpose under the Appropriation Act is insufficient or a need has arisen for expenditure for a purpose for which no amount has been appropriated by the Act, or (b) Money has been withdrawn from the Contingencies Fund.” I believe the situation we have here is that we are talking of money that was not sufficient. For example, the amount for commuter rail. We provided money ... view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Technically, there is nothing wrong the National Treasury has done by bringing Supplementary One, Two, Three or even Four. This is because the Constitution basically says whenever you spend money beyond what was appropriated, you must come to Parliament within two months and report it. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: We want to urge the National Treasury to get it right at budgeting upfront. So, we do not have to change the budget every other day, in as much as it is allowed in the Constitution. I will 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
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: undertake to be part of that training process on behalf of the House. So that, the new leadership at the National Treasury can spend more time on implementation rather than bringing Supplementaries. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: We also do not want the Committee to be dealing with budgeting throughout the year. We would want them to spend more time on oversight after the budget rather than reviewing budget after budget. I wanted to highlight that legally they are okay. But administratively this is not the kind of thing we would want to encourage. Certainly, this is not the kind of thing I want of pleading with Members to stay here beyond their time. I want to thank the Members for creating this session because of a crisis that has been created by somebody else. This could ... view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those words, I support and ask Members that perhaps we need to speed up this so that we can also include one or two other businesses today for another 10 minutes and go home feeling that this session was worth extending. I hope that we can fast track this now and then we clear. I do not want to invoke Standing Order No.95 but I want Members to help so that we finish this soon and move to the next item. view