Prof. George Saitoti

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the issue highlighted in the Recurrent Expenditure is essentially meant to state the title under which the money is sourced. Now, the other bit of Current Grants to Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies, in the Development Expenditure is actually the way the money has been applied. The sum of Kshs200 million is actually the Government grant to the institutions which teach special education. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I hope 2640 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 18, 2007 we do understand each other. It has been said that this is a grant which is given for the operation costs of those institutions which offer special education. These are running costs. This is not for development purposes. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, well, that sum of money is to train those who are already entrenched in the Directorate of Quality Assurance and Standards. At the same time, there are also others that we will recruit. As I said much earlier, we do have an institution where the staff are actually trained. That is the former Highridge Teachers Training College. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, that is the amount of money which is going to be used to waive the tuition fees in our secondary schools. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the Directorate of Higher Education is an autonomous body within the headquarters of the Ministry of Education. The Commission for Higher Education is an external institution on its own, although it falls under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman Sir, that Board has already carried out its work. It presented its report to His Excellency the President a few months ago. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman Sir, this is the amount of grant that has been extended to the HELB so that it can be on-lend money to the students. At the same time, it is important to point out that through the now improved recovery programmes by the HELB, there will be more resources. But in addition to that, we are hoping that within the financial year, we will get more resources to boost that. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I tried very much, indeed, to follow him, but he was not specific. I suppose the hon. Member was trying to ask why the figures are different for each university. We should take into account the fact that the enrolments for each university are different. All the universities have different on-going projects at different stages. Some of them started much earlier. So, some of them are in the process of completion while some are new. That is why there is a variation in terms of the amount of money that has been allocated to different ... view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, as I said much earlier, the research fund will appear under the Ministry of Science and Technology. view
• 18 Jul 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I believe the clarification that the hon. Member is seeking is the very reason why we are going item by item in the Committee. So, it is only one building that TSC is constructing. That is its own headquarters. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the hon. Member will recall that I did actually highlight in my statement that, that money will go towards the construction of the headquarters of TSC. It is going to save us a substantial amount of money. view