Billow Kerrow

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 871 to 880 of 1385.

• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the question raised, the traditional practice for the House is that a report has to be tabled on the Floor of the House. That is when it is properly before the House and Members can be seized of it and can debate it. That was not intended to gag Members. The idea is so that Members are actually speaking from a point of information and based on a report that is before the House because you can be challenged that, the report has not even gone to Parliament. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have discussed the question ... view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I think my colleague in the Committee has already responded to the queries that have been raised. It is not the intention of the Committee to only table the few that we mentioned. All of them will be tabled. More importantly, in the Statement I read earlier, I said we will require all county governments to respond in writing to all the queries. That means that we will have all the queries addressed in terms of getting the Reports. However, in terms of in-depth examination, we will be focusing on some of ... view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that ultimately, whether there was misuse of expenditure in terms of hiring a helicopter in the county and so forth, it will come to the auditor. But there is a request for a special audit to be conducted with regard to misuse of money by hiring helicopters and several other things between the months of August and December last year in Bomet. That request was forwarded through the Clerk’s Office to our Committee and I think that we will be discussing it. It came also from the same Senator. I think that it would ... view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This issue of IDPs is a very interesting one. We live in one nation and IDPs are those people who have been displaced through internal conflicts. There are conflicts which have been there all over this country. Everyone here knows that in Mandera County from 2011 to 2013, there were conflicts. Which IDPs are we talking about? view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need guidance because we also represent--- view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. With regard to your direction on the amendments, we have just received copies of the Report when the sitting started. Therefore, we could not submit amendments before because we did not have copies. I have some proposed amendments. Will you be kind enough to accept them now? view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Maybe I need to seek your guidance. Where it is provided, for instance, in the Public Finance Management Act (PFM) that a certain responsibility falls under a certain Committee of the House, specifically under the PFM Act; that is what I wanted to seek clarification on. view
• 27 Feb 2014 in Senate: The Public Finance Management (PFMA) Act, section 8 says that the Senate Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs Committee will, among other things, look at the Reports under Part 4 which include the Report by the Controller of Budget. If you are dealing with the approval of the Division of Revenue, Budget and so on, it then follows that monitoring of that Budget and utilization is done by the same Committee. That is what I wanted to say. Legally, this will remain under that Committee. Section 8 talks about the functions of the Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs Committee of the ... view
• 26 Feb 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would appreciate if the Mover of the Motion would allow us to have copies of this report. The Report we have is the same one which I thought was tabled in the last session. If there is another one, maybe we need to be given copies because there are no copies of this Report. view