Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I think there is a printing error here. He might be amending the wrong thing. If you go to Section 11(5), it is about appointment of the Registrar under subsection 1. It says it may be renewed subject to a satisfactory performance, while what we are talking about is that the officers appointed under this section shall be paid such remuneration and allowances as the Council may from time to time determine. I think something has moved out of shape here. There is a clerical error, so I would propose that we leave it and recommit at the end. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Since the debate started, everybody has supported the Bill. However, I want to alert the House that this is a wrong-headed legislation. I do not fear standing alone on this one. I stood alone in this House in the 11th Parliament and warned the country about the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) while everybody was supporting. I want to alert you that this legislation is headed in the wrong direction. You will completely finish the small farmers. We will clear them completely with this legislation from where the NCPB left them. It is like somebody ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: on an 8 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on diesel. Farm machineries use diesel. Have we subsidised the farmer? Let us not cheat ourselves. I told this House before that the SGR was headed in the wrong direction. They did not believe me. Look at what the SGR is doing to Mombasa. Mombasa business is dying because of SGR. This one will finish the farmers who are left standing. This Bill is wrong. My dear colleagues, throw it out. It is not worth the paper it is written on. In fact, whoever tabled this Bill should be surcharged for ... view
• 9 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Member’s Petition and urge the Departmental Committee on Energy that when they consider this Petition, they look keenly and find out if there is any agreement with the Ethiopian Government - which is supposed to be a friendly government - on whether we can share electricity with that country. I come from a border county. Originally, most of the power supply in Kenya came from the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja. We had a proper framework of how to share this power. In the case of Moyale, the Departmental Committee on Energy would ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I must confess that I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Health. In fact, this is the third Departmental Committee on Health that I have belonged to in this National Assembly since I was first elected. I must confess that this is one time the Departmental Committee on Health burnt the midnight oil to try and get things right. view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Change is inevitable. We all have to accept it and the best ways to manage it so that it is useful to us. That change in our case means amending the health laws or any other law for that matter. We should not fear to amend it. This Bill amends the health laws, but the Committee has also proposed amendments. I am sure the House will know them when we get to the Committee of the whole House. We hope that Members will support us. I believe that when we are amending the health laws, we should not fear. We ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We need these amendments because they are mainly regulatory. We have the issue of regulating the human resources like pharmacists, doctors and dentists and also the pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical products and the infrastructure in our respective health facilities. We must get this right. We are not saying that these amendments will be the final ones or are cast in stone. As time moves on, we might find need to amend them again. One thing that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: came out very clearly is that when you look at the health-related SAGAs, you find that they have boards, but the methods of appointing them are questionable. I will suggest and recommend that the criterion of appointing people to health SAGA boards should not be based on being a dumping ground for beneficiaries of political patronage. That is dangerous to health care. We need to really look at whom we are appointing to these boards. They should have people with special skills that can help advance healthcare in this country such as public health specialists and health systems management specialists. ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We must re-look at our healthcare system critically, especially now with devolution. Many counties have a problem with this health function. We should re-look at it because we know very well that healthcare does not give the political leaders in the counties political bonga points that they require so fast. We should devolve to them more infrastructure work like roads which elicit immediate bonga points, so that they can stop neglecting healthcare. Healthcare in some counties is a very neglected area. As the previous speaker mentioned, the death rate and the industrial unrest in the health sector have gone up. ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The other area that has not been addressed in the Health Laws (Amendment) Bill is healthcare financing, which is such a critical area that needs to be addressed as urgently as possible. The last Budget came up with the Robin Hood Tax which did not stipulate what the money is for except saying that it will go to the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to help with the universal healthcare. That is not the way we want to run this thing. We re-classified our country to a lower middle-income economy. Once we did that, we lost a lot of donor ... view