Esther Passaris

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The Government is intending to do big projects. If you take the example of the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: expressway, to mobilise equipment and get all the necessary approvals will require say, 12 months. So, I support the Committee in its proposal of ensuring that this goes to 12 months, but which should safeguard the Government from legal action by the contractors. I think the Government has got a lot of contracts that it has done and people have actually extended the contracts. For instance, we have seen the Kenya Pipeline Company and the Zakhem issue. There are pending bills. So, when it comes to the public private partnership, I think it is important to also protect the Government ... view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the County Governments (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No. 13 of 2018). view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: No. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with due respect to my honourable colleague, I agree that we have the NCIC. We also have laws and regulations on how we interact as counties. At the end of the day, if we do not have the budget to ensure proper monitoring and evaluation to look at who is being employed in every county, we cannot say that we have ethnic inclusion. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: All the governors in all the counties come from the communities in the counties that they represent. If we had proper ethnic inclusion, then you would find, for instance, a governor who is a Kikuyu in Nyanza and a Luo in Mt. Kenya region. That is when we can say that we have ethnic inclusion. You vote for a leader because he or she lives in your communities. For instance, we have seen one or more Members of Parliament who have been given positions in the Government, but they are not many. We need to ensure that Kenyans look at ... view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We need to ensure that integration and inclusion is monitored and evaluated in the county assemblies. We should not only look at ethnic inclusion but also gender inclusion. We aim at not having more than two-thirds of one gender. Is it being adhered to in the counties? We need 10 per cent of people living with disabilities in the counties. Is that also being adhered to by the counties? This Bill should ensure that there is a way to monitor and evaluate those issues. The counties that are not doing the right thing, in terms of inclusion and the spread ... view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: As much as we support this Bill because it is good, we also have to realise that one of the biggest problems that we have in this county is corruption. When you mix people together, it is very difficult to have corrupt tendencies. Inclusion will help us deal with corruption. It will also help us deal with the respect of other communities. When we used to have Kikuyu night, Kamba night and Maasai night, we saw that there was so much to celebrate in other communities. If we agree to work together even in our places of work in the ... view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We talked of 2017 to 2022. I sincerely hope we can do something about the level of education we have. We have seen how county assemblies behave. How they throw chairs and tables around and how debates end up in boxing matches. If one is educated, one gets a certain sense of etiquette because it is part of the education. It is important that we support what we ourselves have said we stand for. If they do not have degrees, that is too bad and they can try in 2027. view