Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the protection. The Constitution provides that during the review of the Estimates, the Budget and Appropriations Committee shall seek representation from the public and the recommendations shall be considered when the Committee makes its recommendations to the Assembly. In this regard, every year, since the year 2013, the Budget and Appropriations Committee has been fulfilling this constitutional requirement. The Committee has managed to undertake public hearings through visits to the various counties within the Republic. Since 2018, when the current Committee was constituted, 24 counties have been visited and we were planning to ... view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: been visited only once since 2013 in order of sequence; and, (ii) ensuring regional balance. Using this criterion, the Committee resolved to seek the views of the public in the following 12 counties: Tana River County, Garissa County, Kitui County, Murang’a County, Turkana County, Samburu County, Kericho County, Narok County, Busia County, Homa Bay County, Kisii County and Kwale County. While in the Year 2021/2022, the Committee plans to visit the following 11 counties: Meru County, Nyandarua County, Baringo County, Kilifi County, Kiambu County (where I come from), Mandera County, Machakos County, Elgeyo Marakwet County, Vihiga County, Nandi County and ... view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: In addition, the Committee is alive to the fact that this year, public consultations on the 2020/2021 Budget will be an exception on account of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and, thus, on account of the issued COVID-19 guidelines, the Committee will be seeking the views of the members of the public and other stakeholders by inviting written submissions or memoranda through the media as well as requesting the Members of Parliament from the respective counties that have been earmarked for the hearing to caucus and submit their proposals to the Committee. This exercise is expected to the completed ... view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: I would like to thank the Parliamentary Budget Office for moving swiftly and unpacking the Estimates in record time, amidst these extraordinary times of our lives. The Budget and Appropriations Committee was on Tuesday, 5th May 2020, taken through the contents of the Estimates. During the briefing, as I had mentioned earlier, it was obvious that this year’s Budget, despite the extraordinary times we are going through, was prepared in the usual ordinary manner, that is, the business-as-usual-pattern. Thus, I would like to inform the House and specifically the chairpersons and the entire membership of departmental committees to be extremely ... view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: I am aware that the Director, Parliament Budget Office and the Director, Committee Services have circulated a calendar of events of processing the Budget to all relevant committees and their secretariats. I, therefore, urge the departmental committees to observe the timelines. view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: From the initial review by the Committee, we noted that the submitted Estimates have not lived to the expectations of the nation and the moment. We expected a paradigm shift and firm proposals that related to responses to the crisis of the pandemic and the post COVID-19 era that include economic recovery packages, activities like SMEs rejuvenation, provision of basic needs to the populace, import substitution strategies, restructuring of our public debt, amongst other interventions. view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: Based on the above, the Committee is planning to meet the National Treasury. Of course, Hon. Speaker, you are aware we usually do this at the end of all consultations with departmental committees, the Judiciary and the Parliamentary Service Commission. But these being extraordinary times, we also want to conduct business in an extraordinary way by meeting with the National Treasury well in advance with a view to engage on these issues. We want to request them for a complete overhaul or re-organization of the 2020/2021 Budget to reflect the current circumstances and recovery of the Medium-Term. I am, therefore, ... view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in closing, I thank you. I re-emphasise the last point that having been taken through - and I know two or three departmental committees have also been taken through the Estimates - it is quite clear that the Budget Estimates that were tabled here last week have been prepared in a very ordinary manner. We have failed to take cognizance of the very extraordinary circumstances that face this country and the world economy at large. Therefore, we want to take an early opportunity to engage with the National Treasury and, through the National Treasury and our departmental committees, ... view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: With those remarks, Hon. Speaker, thank you. view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I was consulting with the… view