Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 7031 to 7040 of 9741.

• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: THAT, Clause 10 of the Bill be amended- (c) in sub clause (2) by deleting the words “the Senate or the county assemblies may, upon receiving the annual report under subsection (1), make such recommendations to the Summit”; and substituting therefor the words “or the county assemblies may, upon receiving the annual report under subsection (1), make such recommendations” (d) by inserting a new sub clause immediately after subclasses (3) as follows- (3A) The Senate shall approve all annual reports of the Summit including any recommendations made to the reports by the National Assembly and the county assemblies. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the reason for this is that, in its original form, the Bill recognizes that there is a need--- view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I was just starting to indicate that. The amendment I am moving is to Clause, 10 which in the Bill recognizes that reports of the Summit should be given an opportunity to go through the three assemblies. That process is addressed under Sub-clause (3), but there is a reference to Sub-clause (2). So, actually we are amending Sub-clause (3) and the reason for the amendment is that having recognized in this Bill the importance of the reports going before the National Assembly--- view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. So, I was saying that the Bill, having correctly captured the importance of the County Assembly, the National Assembly and the Senate receiving these reports and being given an opportunity to amend them, if necessary, the same Bill has then gone on and made it optional. Because the Summit will make very important decisions and arrive at very important resolutions, the report of the Summit being looked at by the assemblies should not be made optional. The purpose of this amendment is to make it mandatory. So, I have brought in the thinking that ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I have gone further by this amendment and recognized that of the three assemblies, the assembly which is responsible for county governments is the Senate. I have therefore said, to tidy it up even more, that the County Assembly, after looking at the report, will make proposals framed as amendments; the National Assembly will do the same; they will then transmit them through the Speakers to the Senate and then it is the Senate which will be the final recipient of these amendments with a view of making sure that the decisions made at the ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: I beg to move. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, so that the subsequent contributors understand my thinking, Deputy Prime Minister, this will not be the first time that decisions of one House will be referred to another House. In many other places in the Constitution, you see decisions of either House being referred to the other. Why I chose this route is because I read it together with the other role – the finer role where the Senate will decide on the Executive, the one of impeachment. You have realized that in the Constitution the fine decision after being looked at by the National ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: I beg that you respond. view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I have heard my colleagues and I just want to remind them, especially hon. Orengo and hon. Odhiambo-Mabona that as I went through this amendment, I was alive to the roles of the Senate, especially 96(2). However, so that I am not misunderstood to mean that we want to demean one House or elevate the other one, even in the US where it is expressly provided that there is an Upper and a Lower House, when you talk to Congressmen and Senators, they call each other the Other House rather than the Lower and the ... view
• 23 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I have agreed with them. I have agreed with hon. Kimunya, but just to provoke you a little bit more, so that I hang on to what I wanted to achieve so that the Summit knows that it is mandatory for these reports to go through these Houses, we replace the word “may” with “shall” and the balance remains the same, so that it is not optional. view