Beth Mugo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 731 to 740 of 977.

• 30 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support the Motion on the Floor. I wholeheartedly support the Consumer Protection Bill proposed by the hon. Member. I remember we discussed a Motion that sought to introduce this Bill in the last Parliament, which I also supported. It is unfortunate that it did not materialise because of the nature of the House business where, due to several urgent Bills, other less important ones do not make it to the House. I do not think that is lack of support by Parliament or the relevant Departmental Committees ... view
• 16 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want to thank the mover of this Motion because it is very timely. It is something that we should have looked at a long time ago. As the previous speaker said, this has come to this House before. I know that the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wangari Maathai, has spoken passionately about plastics in this country and the hazardous way they are handled. All previous efforts to control this menace have not worked. The Minister for Finance introduced, as was said earlier, a tax on plastics, ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the Motion before the House. I would like to congratulate the President for his Address to this House exposing the public policy and our legislative programme. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me begin by thanking the people of Dagoretti for giving me a third chance to serve them. This is my third term in this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is sad that the people of Dagoretti never had the chance to celebrate. After giving me an overwhelming vote of 38,000, and defeating my closest rival by ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Yes, he said that. It was there on television. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to tell this House that not very many people will be joyous when they think you are becoming independent of them. Therefore, when we run down our economy and crave for help, we must be careful that we are not playing and doing what the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga told us not to. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate the President and Prime Minister-designate, Mr. Raila Odinga, for their foresight, and for saving this country from what would have been a terrible catastrophe. ... view
• 19 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We feel a bit worried because the women are being marginalised in this House. Yesterday, during a very major debate for the country, other than the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, who moved the Bill, no other woman was given a chance to contribute. This is very serious. You must have views from the both genders. Marginalising one gender is worse than even marginalising--- view
• 19 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We were here the whole afternoon from 2.30 p.m. We were on our feet just like our counterpart, the male gender. Actually, we wore orange, a very bright dress. You cannot have noticed that we were rising since 2.30 p.m. I agree with the mood of the House wanting to close debate, but this does not mean that this should cut all women off. view
• 11 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to support this Motion. However, I want to echo hon. Ngilu's sentiments that there is a general feeling and understanding and acceptance in this country of the one-third rule. This time round, in this House, we have enough women; in fact, more than enough to fulfil that spirit. Mr. Speaker, Sir, whereas I will not ask that this list be sent back, I would like to urge the Whips from both sides of the House not to use this list as an example in the formation of other Committees of this House. In those Committees, ... view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) There are 114 early childhood training centres in the country which offer Early Childhood Development (ECD) in-service courses at certificate and diploma levels. Thirty-two of these, are Government centres while 82 are private centres. (b) The trainers and teachers for the Government training centres are TSC employees who work at the district centres for early childhood education and, during the school holidays they are deployed to train the teachers in ECD training centres through in-service teacher training. 4466 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 16, 2007 The Ministry is currently developing ECD implementation strategy and ... view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the information in my possession is that we pay all the trainees who do the in-service training for the teachers because they are all employed by the TSC. view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that my Ministry supported that Motion. If the hon. Member recalls, we outlined in the Sessional Paper No.1 of 2005 on Policy Framework of Education that the ECD will be assimilated into the free primary education or basic education by the year 2010. These are the preparations we have made. The strategy will be ready by February, 2008. After that date, we will have a programme as to how the implementation will be done and when we will hire the staff. Everything will be in place by 2010 because this is the planning stage. view