George Gitonga Murugara

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: He is a practising advocate and living a better life today, but he is also going to benefit from this Bill. view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: These Members appreciating all this now they know. Thank you. view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Motion which is before the House on the Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kenya and the Government of the Republic of South Africa on Defence Co- operation. This Agreement is very important for this country in security matters. We have to co- operate with other nations at all times on matters that touch on security and safety of our country, and especially on defence. view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: It is very important for the country and the citizens to note that ratification of international agreements do not make them automatically enforceable in the country as law, even if they are ratified by our Government. They take the force of law once they are brought into this House. The House debates them and approves that they should be ratified to become part and parcel of our international treaties. This is what is happening here. Kenya and South Africa have entered into an agreement to co-operate on defence matters. This is the reason this House was asked to ratify this ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Committee on Delegated Legislation on its consideration of the Retirement Benefits (Occupational Retirement Benefits Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No.88 of 2019) and the Insurance (Motor Vehicles Third Party Risks) (Certificate of Insurance) (Amendment) Rules, 2019 (Legal Notice No.92 of 2019), laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 2nd October 2019, and pursuant to the provisions of Section 18 of the Statutory Instruments Act, 2013 and Standing Order 210(4)(b), annuls in entirety— (i) The Retirement Benefits (Occupational Retirement ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Statutory Instruments Act further provide that scrutiny of any published instrument shall be guided by the principles of good governance, rule of law and various considerations such as any defects in drafting, expenditure from the Consolidated Fund and other public revenue, unjustifiable delay in publishing or laying the instrument before parliament, among others. Today, it is important for this Committee to state what it has done. It is considered that the work of the Committee is to annul statutory instruments when they come before the House, which is not the case. So far, out of the 74 instruments submitted in ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: On the 21st June 2019 and on the 2nd July 2019, the Principal Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning submitted a total of 14 pieces of legislation, being statutory instruments, relating to the 2019/2020 Financial Year. These were actually in the Budget and they were tabled before the National Assembly. The regulations were subsequently committed to the Committee on Delegated Legislation on 21st June and the 4th July 2019. I do emphasise that the Committee, pursuant to its mandate, scrutinised all those 14 pieces of legislation and pursuant to the law that the Committee works under, specifically Section 16 ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: It is important that I move that we now consider the Report on the Retirement Benefits (Occupational Retirement Benefits Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations of 2019. These regulations were made pursuant to Section 55 of the Retirement Benefits Act (No.3 of 1997). The Regulations were published in the Kenya Gazette via Legal Notice No.88 of 2009 on 13th June, 2019. They were received by the Clerk of this House on 21st June, 2019 and Tabled on 21st June, 2019. The purpose of the Regulations, briefly, was to expand the requirements of the content of the Schemes Rules to include distribution of reserve ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Having considered all that, the Committee thus arrived at a decision which we will now communicate to this House under the various relevant laws. That the House annuls in its entirety the said statutory instruments because of the following reasons: (i) Insufficient public participation. This is a very vital factor while considering these instruments; (ii) These Regulations were not accompanied by a Regulatory Impact Statement as required by Sections 6, 7 and 8 of the Act which should have been notified in the Gazette and a newspaper likely to be read by members of various occupational retirement benefits schemes under ... view