Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Committee of Supply up to Thursday, last week. It is a very short Bill with only three clauses, but we intend to introduce a fourth clause which will touch on amendments that I will be speaking to. These are the only things that have changed from what we did in the Committee of Supply, last week. We will consider the amendments that have been proposed when we go to the Committee of the whole House. I beg to appraise the House on the following. Pursuant to Article 114(2), the following proposed amendments were forwarded to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: One, in respect of the First Schedule, re-alignment of Vote 1041, the National Treasury by effecting the reduction of Kshs1.8 billion from recurrent and not development. This relates to an amount of Kshs1.8 billion that the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning had proposed to be reallocated from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to the National Government, Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) kitty. It is good to confirm to the House that the proposed amendment does not touch on NG-CDF because it is a realignment of the Kshs1.8 billion that had been reduced from the development expenditure of KRA which has ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Two, is the transfer of Kshs800 million to Vote 1066 - State Department for Early Learning and Basic Education from Vote 1064 - State Department for Vocational and Technical Training. This follows consultations with - Hon. Injendi is here representing the Chair of Departmental Committee on Education and Research who is away - the Departmental Committee on Education and Research and the National Treasury which sought to reallocate Kshs1.5 billion that had been reallocated by the Departmental Committee from this Vote on Basic Education and Early Learning. This will deal with digital learning. A figure of Kshs1.5 billion was to ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The third amendment relates to what I have alluded to. We intend to add a third clause to the Bill which I want to speak to. This relates to Vote 2041 being increased by Kshs500 million under the Senate Affairs Programme for the county oversight programme. This will be utilised to undertake oversight activities by our sister House, the Senate. There is need for the two The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Houses of Parliament, both the National Assembly and the Senate to effectively understand that the National Assembly has a bigger and larger oversight role than the Senate. The Senate oversees resources of over Kshs300 billion, while the National Assembly has appropriated over Kshs1.9 trillion to various activities within Government. Therefore, Members of the National Assembly have more functions, even constitutionally, if you look at Schedule Four of the Constitution. Indeed, more functions are vested in the national Government and the National Assembly oversees them. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, appreciating that we both have a role in oversight, the Committee recommends the following. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: That, in order to complement the allocation of Kshs500 million to Vote 2041 for undertaking Senate oversight activities, a sub-programme be established under Vote 2042 for the National Assembly, known as the National Oversight Program and be allocated Kshs50 million. This will be composed of Kshs25 million reallocated from domestic travel and Kshs25 million reallocated from foreign travel for Vote 2042 for National Assembly. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, I am now going to what you are asking. This is a programme that does not exist as we speak and we are, therefore, seeking to create a new programme and give it some seed money. I will be explaining why if you get a bit patient. Once we create this seed capital, it is this House that will still appropriate or re-appropriate resources subject to the amendment that we seek to introduce to the Bill. The amendment will be to create what was in the… view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: We have created a caveat that the disbursement of these resources, namely the county oversight and the national oversight programmes will be subject to the tabling of respective comprehensive regulations for approval and concurrence by the two Houses; that is the Senate and the National Assembly. I am sure many of us understand why it is important to create that proviso that we need to agree. We need to create a framework and agree on how this money will be utilised for oversight both at the national and county levels. So, it will be crucial that we formulate regulations that ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: With those very many remarks, I beg that we support the proposed amendments when we get to the Third Reading. I beg to move that we consider this Bill for Second Reading. I request the Leader of the Majority Party to second. view