David Gikaria

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• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: kuweza kuweka Miswada. Hasa alikuwa akiniambia vile alishiriki katika kupitisha Constitution ya 2010... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. As I support this Motion, it is important for us to realise that the budget- making process is a constitutional right and this House has been mandated by the Constitution to go through the process under Article 221. It is very important that this House does recognise its mandate. We must adhere to the Constitution. It has given us a directive as to how we should proceed with the budget-making process. It is sometimes very unfortunate that as part of our constitutional right as Parliament and as enshrined in ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: out of the blues, but is informed by what is happening. Sometimes you find a department gives you some information which you totally believe is correct, but when used to make a recommendation or decision, the same department comes back saying it was misinformation. This is unfortunate because at that level we need to make decisions. view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: In the budget-making process we requested the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and more so the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) to second very senior fiscal analysts to our Committees. I am saying this because a fiscal analyst is a staff of the department and has a know-how of the budget- making process. Sometimes the recommendations or decisions the Committee makes are not properly informed. So, we need the PBO to give us qualified fiscal analysts to advise the Committees on various aspects. So, as we make decisions, they will advise on the consequences or pros and cons of ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Talking of the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) that was brought before the Committee and we went through it, we would want to agree that for the first time in many years, there is consistency, concurrence and merging of the estimates and BPS. I want to agree that in as much as we are given ceilings, when these estimates are brought on the Floor of the House; it is important to note the role a ministry plays in achieving its goals and objectives. For example, let us take energy which is one of the biggest enablers of the Big four Agenda ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: When you look at the Budget and see deficits sometimes it hurts because you can only imagine that if you have a deficit, it means one or two things. We will either have to tax Kenyans more or borrow. Of course, it has been said by many speakers that the debt ceilings of this country are worrying. In as much as the Leader of the Majority Party has said, it is good to borrow but we must borrow for purposes of production and not consumption. When we see a Budget with a deficit then it is important for us as ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The budget-making process as the Constitution requires should have public participation element. It is important for the Budget and Appropriations Committee to consider when going round for public participation that it is not right to go to two or three constituencies. We need, at least, a third of them so that we can get the feeling of the country and what is required. Some places may require road infrastructure and others electricity. We have different requirements. I think it is important, under the public participation, that the Budget and Appropriations Committee should visit more constituencies or counties as they are ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me talk about absorption. It is very unfortunate that most of the times when we get the supplementary budget estimates, the reason that is normally given for the reduction of some of the expenditures is that the absorption is low. Much as the Treasury collects, it must also be able to give as it is in the PFM Act on a quarterly basis. They should disburse what is required. So, when the absorption is so low, then it means even the targets and outputs... Even as departmental committees, sometimes we want to evaluate and monitor ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: be able to give respective ministries and departments their money so that they can actualise their budgets. view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: There is something that is now becoming a trend. Ministries are basically supposed to deal with policy matters. They should have nothing to do with the actual implementation of the ministry’s activities because we have various departments. However, you find ministries now doing tendering. If you have a department that has by law been mandated to do a specific job, allow that department to undertake that mandate. We were given a few departments under the Energy Act 2019. We bestowed the responsibility of renewable energy to a certain department called the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) but you ... view