Billow Kerrow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Sep 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you had announced earlier that I have two minutes. That is before Sen. Kagwe made his contribution. So, I should be entitled to my two minutes. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. This Motion clearly focuses on professional negligence in the medical profession. There is growing concern with regard to professional negligence in recent times. We read about it very frequently; be it about quacks who are practising or genuine medical professionals who are involved in malpractices or professional misconduct. This issue has raised a lot of concern in recent times. I appreciate the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board which is the regulatory professional body that deals with the conduct of doctors and dentists who have registered with them. This ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: the professionals. However, the Motion seems to suggest that it wants to set up a public health complaints board in the counties. This is basically a screening institution that members of the public can report to and where their complaints are screened on whether they are reasonable or genuine so that they are forwarded to the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board for disciplinary action against their members. The cases can also be referred to the Director of Public Prosecution in cases which are outright criminal and so forth. This is not the only profession which has this sort of ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the following new clause be inserted immediately after Clause 3- view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the following new clause be inserted immediately after Clause 12- view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the following new clause be inserted immediately after Clause 13- 14. The Memorandum accompanying the Bill giving rise to this Act pursuant to Article 218(2) of the Constitution shall not be binding on Parliament in subsequent proceedings relating to the budget estimates and the annual Appropriation Bill for a particular financial year. Of course, we also did this when we were looking at the Division of Revenue Bill. The reason is that the memorandum is to provide information for purposes of our debate and discussion but it does not form part of ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Those are the three clauses we have inserted and we request Members to support them. I want to ask Sen. Kagwe to second. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Sir. I thank Sen. Kagwe because he has explained that point. We are talking about Kshs210 billion and the total monthly remittances are about or less than Kshs18 billion per month. We are talking about public revenues of about Kshs1trillion in a year. Therefore, the amount that they collect is more than two to three times that amount. We have discussed with them and they are in agreement that that they prefer this mode of payment. It is also easier for the counties to get monthly cash flows than quarterly. The other thing that the Senator ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Chairman, Sir, before we conduct the division, could we proceed with the Schedules? view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- view