Dalmas Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 121 to 130 of 321.

• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: (Inaudible) view
• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: (Inaudible) view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. For the first time, I am feeling very uncomfortable with budgetary matters. I would like the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to note that. The Committee is asking us to approve 15 per cent additional Budget. What does it mean? Revenue collection this year declined by 70 billion and yet the Committee Chairman wants us to approve an additional sum of Kshs198 billion. In a way, he is requesting us to approve a borrowing of additional Kshs268 billion to be spent between today and Tuesday. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I would like to point out that 92 per cent of the money he is requesting is for Development Expenditure. There was a report to the effect that the absorption rate of the Development Budget was hardly 70 per cent. How will the spending entities absorb Kshs198 billion between today and Tuesday? This can only mean that people have spent the money in advance or they have accumulated pending Bills--- view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I am willing to listen, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you for revealing that position. The Committee has not done its job. The Committee is bringing to us for approval what the Government has already spent without our approval. He has acknowledged that the Government has already spent the money on development. They are now looking for money to pay pending bills and yet the law does not allow any procurement without the money being approved by Parliament. As the responsible Committee, are they asking us to approve monies they have spent without our approval? Do they want us to rubberstamp their inefficiency? view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I wish to hear him. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Sorry for betraying yourself further. Is he telling us that in the last one month the Executive has spent Kshs198 billion because it expects our Budget and Appropriations Committee to rubberstamp that expenditure? Is he explaining to us what is happening at the National Youth Service (NYS) – somebody rushing to spend hundreds of millions of shillings in the last one month and then he brings this Supplementary Estimates for our rubberstamping? Please, help us understand. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: If you had not been informed by the National Treasury please admit it before us. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, even after I take the Kshs135 billion for the SGR, there is still another Kshs133 billion being requested. Not only that. In the next few days, you want to give the Ministry of Devolution and Planning Kshs12.4 billion and we gave them another Kshs26 billion in the next financial year. Where is the logic which this Committee should answer? Why should Development Expenditure not be made to wait for the next financial year? If you are going to encourage the Executive to keep bursting the ceilings, spending more than what Parliament already approved only to use tyranny ... view