Beatrice Elachi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I briefed the acting Chairperson of the Committee on Health, because the Chairperson has not been in the House for a while and the Vice Chairperson is also not around. I thought that Sen. (Dr.) Machage would have helped at that time, but he is also not in the House. I would like to ask Sen. Sijeny to give us up to Tuesday. It means that I will have to go for the statement myself and deliver it next Tuesday. view
• 21 Jul 2016 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also want to thank Sen. Sijeny for bringing the amendment to the Constitution regarding a critical issue to our country. Article 261 (5) may be used against Parliament if we are unable to ensure that the two-thirds gender matter is determined. I also want to thank Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., Sen. Hassan and the Senate Minority Leader for their stand when this Bill was in the ‘lower House’. They stood firm and declared that it is time that we finish with the agenda. view
• 21 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Senator of Kakamega and the Vice Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights should have waited until I finished my statement. I was just affirming. Of course, I know what my Senator and the Vice Chairperson of the Committee have done. I wish they could have waited. view
• 21 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, indeed, they are part of the movement and I am sure that the Vice Chair will follow up after we finish debating, so that we can ensure that even the ‘lower House’ agrees with us. I thank every Kenyan who participated and ensured that we have a new Constitution. I also thank the late Sen. Mutula Kilonzo (senior) - may his soul rest in peace - because he stood with us. Even at the National Assembly, he stood steady to ensure that 50 seats are given to women. He later joined the Eleventh Parliament and gave ... view
• 19 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Committee, I would request the Senator to give us two weeks to bring both statements. view
• 19 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was not holding brief since they are here. Let me remind the House that last year in this Senate we passed a Motion urging the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure they put up an institution in every Embassy; an institution to deal with issues like what is happening in South Sudan. At that time, we had a lot of hue and cry on the issue of domestic violence against workers in Saudi Arabia. I do not know what happened. I urge the chairpersons, as they answer this question, to go back and look ... view
• 14 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, while I appreciate the Chair and the good work they have done, I am worried that we are going to end up with a different product. The Bill will change completely. Why would we delete Clauses 30 to 44 when we are facing so many challenges at the moment with regard to nurses and doctors? We have the example of Busia where the county assembly has told the governor that he has to deal with the children that became disabled. I thought that this institution would have come and harmonized some of these things. I am ... view
• 14 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, we are dealing with issues of our children and health matters. I saw an amendment where we have decided that vaccination can be done. We have brought great confusion in the whole process. As a mother, I think that the county governments should not decide when my child, for example, will be vaccinated. If we allow that we will be killing our children and encouraging other complications. The Senate should be serious about health matters. We, Members, have insurance cover and that is why we run to Nairobi Hospital and other hospitals. At the grassroots level, ... view
• 14 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Chairperson, Sir, the problem is not how we do things but why we refuse to realise that in the implementation of all this, the national Government gets its ego with the money and the county government does the same. At that time, they forget that we are dealing with human beings and it becomes a conflict of resources between the two. My Senator and the Chairperson of the Committee on Health are both in the Committee of Finance, Commerce and Budget. They know very well that when it comes to allocation of funds, you will see how governors ... view
• 14 Jul 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I appreciate what my colleagues have said, but I gave my opinion as a woman of this country. I was not doing it on behalf of the Government. I imagined myself as a doctor working in a county. If my husband asks that I get a transfer to another county, what procedure will I use to be released from that county? I was looking at this amendment from a gender perspective, because mostly women are the ones who move from one county to another. view