Elias Peter Mbau

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I guess this question arises out of the collective wisdom that was exercised by this House earlier on in the year, through the recommendations by the Budget Committee, which recommended that foreign travel expenditure in all Government Ministries and departments, including Parliament, be reduced to about 50 per cent. We made that recommendation out of the concern that far too many Government delegations were kind of living outside this country and incurring so much recurrent expenditure. Looking at these figures, I now understand why I do not see some of our Ministers here. I now know where ... view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have heard the Assistant Minister say that the Social Health Insurance Scheme Bill is still pending before the Cabinet. It may be wise for him to tell us how long Bills that are committed to the Cabinet take to come back, so that, we, as Members of Parliament, may know when to expect them. Could he also tell us the measures he has taken? Last year, this House passed the Mortuary Waiver Bill. He undertook to make a budgetary provision, so that resources can be provided to help families that lose their loved ones, whose bodies ... view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Public Health and Sanitation:- (a) whether she is aware that most hotels and restaurants in the country no longer serve food with the requisite accompaniment of free water and that this has led to exploitation of customers who are compelled to purchase bottled/distilled water; and, (b) what measures she will take to ensure that bottled water is distilled and certified and not tap water bottled by companies. view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I want to thank the Minister for this answer. I also want to take this opportunity to welcome her back. We had missed you and we are warmly touched by your healing process. This Question was prompted by my various experiences where you find in many ordinary hotels across the country, bars and restaurants would want to sell bottled water that costs about Kshs50 so that instead of a customer being sold food with the normal accompaniment of a glass of water, these days in many restaurants, there is no accompaniment of a glass of water ... view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: who just want to eat a meal and get a glass of water to rinse their mouth or even swallow it but this is difficult because they must buy. I want to thank the Minister and not ask a question as such in view of her new status or having just come back from wherever she has been. view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am satisfied with the prosecution of that Question, so far. view
• 31 Jul 2012 in National Assembly: I thank the Minister. view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, in supporting this amendment, I wish to say that it is known and clear that many Members have contributed. Higher education maybe necessary but it is not sufficient. We have had very many people, who were very learned, run for elections but never found their way to this debating chamber. view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, our expectation when you finished as is the tradition was that the Chairlady would rise and the Speaker would go and sit on the Speaker’s seat so that the relevant Minister is able to report. We then expected the Next Order would be called. The Minister knows there have been amendments. This was occasioned when the Minister was directed by this House and the Deputy Speaker this morning, to carry out an extended engagement and discussions with the Budget and Finance Committees, with a view to ensuring amendments that we had recommended as a House are ... view
• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, it is, indeed, true that what hon. Dalmas Otieno would wish to see happen in the future should happen. I want to assure him and the other Members that the path we have been taken through by the Treasury has been very rough. It has been a very rough path for us. We appreciate that the Minister for Finance is new and he is familiarizing himself with the new office. We further appreciated that all of us were in a transition and some things were grey. We would like to see the Ministry of Finance, in ... view