Esther Murugi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: The final one, which I find a little bit disturbing is Clause 40(6), which provides that where the authority makes a decision that a licensee is competing unfairly, the authority shall take specific actions. The Bill says all the things that it will do. If I am a broadcaster, am I not in business? Business is about competition. If I am in business, it is about competition. How are they going to determine whether I am doing it unfairly or not? We need to clarify this, otherwise you can find one media house victimising other media houses because, maybe, it ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: This is a Bill whose time has come. I support it but I would urge the Committee to look at those three issues, which I feel are very pertinent to make the Bill as good as it should be. view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order No.44 (2)(c), I wish to seek a Statement from the Chairperson, Departmental Committee on Health. view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wish to seek a Statement from the Chairperson, Departmental Committee on Health. The Fourth Schedule of the Constitution stipulates that national referral hospitals are the mandate of the national Government and yet Governors are managing these hospitals. view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Could the Chairperson tell us the number of hospitals that have been classified as referral hospitals and what criteria were used to classify them? Nyeri General Hospital has not been classified as a referral hospital and yet patients are being charged rates that are applicable to referral hospitals. Could this be reversed until such time it is classified as a referral hospital? view
• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I wish to support these amendments and also taking into view that if anyone of us remembers the late 1990s, a lot of banks went under with a lot of deposits and what these people were paid was just a meagre Kshs100,000 regardless of how much money the banks had with them and up to date these people have not yet been repaid whatever was with the banks. So, I think this is something that is very encouraging to Kenyans and it will also give confidence to people to save. I believe when they encourage Kenyans ... view
• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, some of the banks that went under actually forced people who had deposited money in their banks to buy shares and those shares have not even appreciated in value. If you were forced to buy shares worth a million shillings, it is still worth Kshs1 million ten to 20 years down the line. So, I believe this is something that is going to give encouragement to Kenyans and especially as we are encouraging the youth and women to become entrepreneurs. They can only be entrepreneurs by learning how to save and being assured that whatever savings they make, ... view
• 18 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: So, hon. Speaker, I do not want to elaborate further but I think it is a good move. We should all support it and ensure that it is implemented not tomorrow but yesterday. Thank you. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is not a point of order. I just wanted to say that I have been waiting to contribute. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also wanted to contribute in support of this Bill. In supporting it I want to assure the governors and the Senators that we, as Members of Parliament, are actually the beneficiaries of devolution. This is because since the governors will take on various functions we can divert our Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) into other things; they will take over some of our other functions. For example, they have taken over the youth polytechnics, which means that the funding that we had allocated to youth polytechnics can now go to something else that will ... view