Hon Francis Kuria Kimani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Probably also to add to submissions made by the stakeholders, this was going to make it cheaper to produce in Tanzania and import to Kenya rather than producing in Kenya and creating employment for our youth in the country. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. Since the dispensation of the Constitution 2010, the several other mandates that were previously held by the national Government were taken to the county governments. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: We cannot overemphasise the importance of our roads which is one of the factors of production. Mobility of our factors of production remains a key issue. It becomes very embarrassing every time we look at the states of the roads, especially those which are supposed The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: to be maintained by our counties. I want to say without fear of contradiction that the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) which is patronised by the Members of Parliament is doing its best to maintain the roads. However, the roads that lead to villages and farms which farmers need to take their produce to the market remain a key problem despite the big allocation of revenue by the county governments. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: We hold elections every five years. Every leader who comes in wants to leave a legacy. In as much as we want to leave this legacy, there has been a worrying trend that we have discussed on this Floor before. I would like to talk about it again. That is the issue of projects that delay for too long. If you go to Nakuru County, we have dispensaries that were allocated money in the former regime but they remain unopened and unoperational. Our people are not able to access these facilities because those projects have never been completed. In my ... view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: The issue of revenue collection by our counties remain a key issue. Every time a project in the counties is not in progress, the members of staff tell us it is because of delays in the release of money from the National Treasury. I wonder whether the counties forget their roles of revenue collection or they just rely on the revenue that is collected by the national Government. The view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: from that small market at Salama in Kasarani and Elburgon pays some money every day to the county government for their licences. Even that boda boda operator who is riding the boda boda on a very bad road being rained on trying to earn a living is still taxed to give money to the county government but this money does not go to maintenance of those roads. Some counties have levies on licence applications. That money is supposed to go for tourism promotion but when you look at the programmes that these counties have in tourism promotion, they are almost ... view
• 27 Sep 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to first congratulate you on your appointment today to the Chairperson’s Panel. We look forward to having you serving us with the diligence that my colleagues have mentioned. I beg that we adopt this Sessional Paper. I have just received news from my constituency that somebody has killed his girlfriend and committed suicide. That brings cases of suicide in my constituency and that of the neighbouring Kuresoi to around nine or ten. I was looking at Page 17 of the Sessional Paper, which is on health personnel. I see ... view
• 27 Sep 2017 in National Assembly: In addition, I was looking at our population indices and realised that 78 per cent of our population is made up of young people who are below 35 years of age. But how often do we take care of their medical needs? You realise that the medical needs of this bracket are different from those of people over 35 years of age. The objectives of the Paper are equity and making sure that everyone has access to standard medical facilities. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be ... view
• 27 Sep 2017 in National Assembly: Looking at the issue of NHIF cards as raised by my colleague, although Members of Parliament have the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), I see a point in us being allowed to use some money from the NG-CDF to help our constituents pay for the NHIF cards. That way, many people will access medical services without necessarily paying for them. In the same breath, we have many employers who deduct money from employees for the purpose of NHIF, but they do not remit the money to the Fund. So, we have people going to access medical facilities only to ... view