All parliamentary appearances
Entries 51 to 60 of 513.
-
21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to begin by appreciating and thanking you for your very wise decision and ruling this afternoon that was very informed. You know last year when we had this kind of mess, the Chair still provided direction to hon. Members and the House as a whole. So I want to thank you for the guidance that you have given to this House. I have listened very keenly to the contributions of hon. Members of both the Back Bench and the Front Bench which contributions go towards telling the Executive what the Back Bench is usually ...
view
-
20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have been trying to catch your eye for quite some time and I thank you that now I have the chance. Before we can support this Motion, I would like the Leader of Government Business to make a clarification. He seeks or wants the Minister for Finance to move the Vote on Account tomorrow, so that we can access resources to deliver Government services, but Article 221 (6) of the Constitution reads as follows:- “When the estimates of the national Government expenditure, and the estimates of expenditure for the Judiciary and Parliament have been ...
view
-
7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you and wish to move the Budget Committee Report on the Budget Estimates. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Members of the Budget Committee, I wish to report that as is required under Article 221(5) of the Constitution and as per the ruling of the Speaker of 8th June, 2011 which gave clear direction on how the budget process would be conducted until the end of the life of this Parliament, I hereby present to the House the Committee’s Report of the 2012/2013 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure laid on ...
view
-
7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you very much. I wish to take this opportunity to thank the many hon. Members who have spoken on this Motion and the Minister for also supporting this Motion entirely. I want to thank all the members of the Budget Committee and all those in the Speaker’s office as well as the Clerk of the National Assembly for the support we have received.
view
-
7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, may the Minister be guided by the new Geographical Positioning Revenue System (GPRS) which is an enhanced device that will guide in the collection of taxes so that by the end of this financial year, we do not have a situation of revision of estimates downwards. We hope he will be able to use that device including the revised Value Added Tax (VAT) so that we are able to fund as a country the targeted expenditure to the full. If we achieve this, Mr. Minister, I want to assure you, you will have achieved a task ...
view
-
7 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
With those few remarks, I thank you very much and once again I beg to move.
view
-
6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:-
view
-
6 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
THAT, this House adopts the Budget Committee Report on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Financial Year, 2012/2013 laid on the Table of this House today, Wednesday, 6th June, 2012.
view
-
30 May 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I thank the Member for Gwassi for raising this matter of the state of dilapidated roads in his constituency, I wish to bring to the attention of the Assistant Minister that heavy rains and flash floods have caused havoc and destroyed the road infrastructure across the country. I have in my possession official data from the Minister’s Office stating that the damaged road network that is usually catered for by Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) will require only Kshs500 million to repair.
view
-
30 May 2012 in National Assembly:
As at 16th May, the road network that was damaged by the rains under the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) will require Kshs2.6 billion to repair across the country. The damaged road network under Kenya Rural Roads Authority will require Kshs7.5 billion for repairs. All those damaged roads are across the country.
view