All parliamentary appearances
Entries 1471 to 1480 of 2696.
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4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The subtitle of the amendment is about transparency. Regarding whether to publish or not, I did not understand whether the four options given will be used or is it that the information must be published? Because we want transparency it will be important to compel the Commission to publish the information. I support his amendment.
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4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was still looking at the Appropriation Bill. That notwithstanding, it is important for us to support the Bill just before we go for recess and allocate money to the biggest spending sector, namely, the Public Service. It is high time Parliament and the country started looking at the Constitution. The Constitution generally is a very good document, but there are some Articles which need to be looked at keenly. As a country and in a bipartisan manner, we should try and look at the Constitution. This is a very important Bill for the ...
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4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
Parliament is supposed to critically look at the Bill and scrutinise what has been allocated under the Bill and give a meaningful judgment because of the concentration. I am not saying that whatever we are contributing is not productive, but if you look at the concentration of every Member that is supposed to be giving their input towards the Bill, it is something that is very important. Therefore, we need to look at the Constitution and ask ourselves whether having the elections in August is reasonable. It will happen in another five years. What will happen? Do we again go ...
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4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly:
With those remarks, I support.
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16 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
I want to agree with what the Leader of the Majority Party has just alluded to. He has raised the most critical issue of the matter that we are discussing. As a Member of the Implementation Committee, I know that we had a problem in terms of what the Leader of the Majority Party said regarding the devolved functions, which this Committee would want to oversee. The challenge is that the Committee does not have that mandate, as per the Constitution. Lastly, and most importantly, the Committee’s Report regarding the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) seeks to amend an Article ...
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16 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
committee, other committees, like the Devolution Committee, can be formed. Again, we need to look through our Standing Orders and see whether there is any provision that allows formation of such a committee. There is nowhere in the Standing Orders that shows how we can start a committee that is not found therein. I totally agree with what the Leader of the Majority Party has said.
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14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I am a Member of the CIOC and I am one of the people who did not support the introduction of a new committee on devolution. I had all the reasons to believe that we cannot be a country where if an agency fails to perform its duty, the only option left is to form another committee to perform functions of that agency. The CIOC is a constitutional committee which draws its mandate from Schedule 6(4) of the Constitution on Parliamentary Select Committees. ...
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14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
I have been trying to go through the Standing Orders of this House to see where we draw our mandate as Parliament to form a Committee. We need to change the Standing Orders so that it gives us a mandate as Parliament to form a Committee of any nature like this one on devolution. If you look at the limitation of mandate of a committee under Standing Order No.197, it also speaks about where the Committee draws its mandate from. Where will this Devolution Committee draw its mandate from? It is very specific under the limitations of mandate of a ...
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14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
We want to remove these functions from that Committee of Parliament and then form a Committee that will---I do not think that is correct. That is not acceptable. We cannot allow that. If the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade has failed to fulfil its functions, we cannot circumvent that and forget that there is a Committee. We need as Parliament to request that the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade---There is no way that we can form---
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14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly:
I am winding up. Hon. Deputy Speaker it is wrong for the Committee to have sat and agreed that we form a Devolution Committee to oversee devolution at the county level when we have a substantive Departmental Committee. If it has failed, it is the responsibility of this House to tell that Committee to wake up and do its work instead of forming other Committees. With those few remarks, I oppose the Motion.
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