David Mwiraria

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 11 to 20 of 40.

• 11 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support the Report of the 12th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. In supporting the Report, let me make a few comments on the topics discussed by that Assembly. A topic of great interest to us here in Kenya is tourism. I must say that the Government of Kenya took the right decision when they decided to give tourism the first priority in their first development programme after taking over as the NARC Government. That was an area where we had facilities which needed refurbishing and where all that was required was proper management. ... view
• 11 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Yes, indeed, that was the Member for Kacheliba; I beg your pardon. I was saying that the Member for Kacheliba said that one of the water-borne diseases, namely cholera, continues to kill people there, and the Government should take immediate action to stop these deaths and the spread of the disease. One of the problems that Kenya, like many other developing countries, is going to face, because of the climate change which we are experiencing, is lack of water. Most of our rivers, particularly those from mountains like Mt. Kenya, are already beginning to dry up. There is, therefore, need ... view
• 5 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the Report of the Kenyan Delegation to the 115th Assembly of the IPU. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I note with interest, the fact that the IPU has a four- year plan to promote peace and governance. Unfortunately, the Report states that the activities of IPU, on this very important topic, are to be financed by donors. They have already given requests to donors in Geneva and hopefully, they will be getting support for the topic. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I support donor assistance wherever it is possible, I ... view
• 22 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Motion and thank His Excellency the President for the exposition of public policy contained in His Excellency's Presidential Address to this House last Tuesday. Let me start by saying that the President's Address was brief and to the point. The President gave the Government policies and pointed out his Government's achievements during the last four years. I really want to commend him for that excellent exposition. But let me add that the Government, which has done well in the area of economic development, should press on in order to achieve ... view
• 22 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government should pay greater attention to making sure that--- view
• 22 Mar 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of the steps that the Government needs to take to attain economic independence is to be able to finance its Budget fully. With only 4 per cent to go, the Government is not very far. We need to urge the Government to collect more taxes. In fact, we do not need to have tax increases, but to collect taxes fully in order to attain that position. Once we attain that position, we should also strive to get Kenya given a credit rating by an accepted credit rating organisation like the Standards and Polls which has already ... view
• 5 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of information, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to inform my hon. colleague that the statement he is making on how useless or how the Government does not implement the recommendations of PAC is not entirely correct. I just want to give him a few examples. First, and I know this because I was the Minister for Finance, the Government had stopped pending bills. Secondly, you will find pending imprests for people who have since left the Government. There are no more such pending imprests today. Thirdly, and I will stop here, the audit of Government ... view
• 14 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Sorry, I have lost my voice but I will try to be heard. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this very important Bill. It is a Bill establishing a very important Authority; an authority which the insurance industry in Kenya has required for many years. In fact, it is coming a little late but it is better late than never. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the objects and functions of this Authority, one of them is Section 3A(d) which is "to protect the interests of insurance policy holders and ... view
• 14 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. What I, really, wanted to say was that there were clauses, in the Finance Bill that we passed, which were dealing with the protection of the poor people of this country who pay premiums to insurers but who lose up. For instance, there was a proposal that money paid to brokers by persons seeking insurance policies should be passed on to insurance companies within 24 hours. We may not agree with that proposal, but this is intended to protect the broker. What I wanted to suggest is that since we are passing this ... view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Hon. Ojode has stated categorically that we have murderers in this House. Could he substantiate his claims or withdraw and apologise? view