Dalmas Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Surprisingly, productivity is an issue which is lost. I had worked hard and long to make sure that we have a tripartite agreement among the unions, the employers and the Government to have measurable productivity in every economic sector so that we do not end up paying people more than the value addition of their contribution to our economy. Again, that has slowed down. What has made it slow down? The Ministry that was responsible for public service was expanded and is now a huge Ministry under Cabinet Secretary, Anne Waiguru. I do not even know if she has the ... view
• 15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I am happy that at least this Bill will lead to enlargement so that we go back to the direction towards productivity, performance, fairness, expeditious, timely performance and quality decision-making. It will not just be a matter of people expecting service and having to go to court. As it is now, the Bill seems to rely on judicial reviews as the guidance to ensure that there is efficiency, fairness and timely decision-making. There should be service charters in every Government Department, to act as the basis for motivating our public servants to be fair, efficient and expeditious in their decision- ... view
• 15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I am one of the people who insisted that the clause on fair administration must be included in the Constitution. I am happy that we succeeded in having it inserted. However, the mechanisms that will apply effectively and efficiently are not there. This Bill has just touched on it. It will be improved as time goes on. view
• 15 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 14 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. On the issue of sub view
• 14 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: raised by hon. Maanzo, honestly, we cannot adopt a practice where anybody rushes to the courts knowing that the courts have unlimited jurisdiction in an effort to stop proceedings before the House. view
• 14 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: In fact, if the persons who have gone to court are associated with any Member here, that Member should be pronounced equally guilty of breach of privilege as far as the Committee has recommended. Where the House has commenced a process and somebody goes to court, we should proceed and complete our proceedings. The court is still free to hear the petition. If what we have done is invalid, they will declare it void just like in any legislation that we may pass that can be declared void to a particular extent that the court will so determine at that ... view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: There is something that is out of order. view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: We need to insist on the practising aspect because other professionals who are not practitioners have not been subjected sufficiently to the code of conduct in practice under the professions. That office of the Auditor-General is one of the institutions that needs to be strengthened not only by practitioners running it but also strengthened by a number of--- view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: That information is marketable and it will be part of corruption to lower the fine so that somebody can sell the information, get the money and use it as a bargain. We should raise the bar high enough to discourage trading with information obtained by the Auditor-General. view