Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 2 of the Bill be amended by deleting the definition of “project management committee” and substituting therefor the following new definition— “project management committee” means a committee appointed by the Constituency Committee to implement a project; We have mentioned the expression “project management committee” severally in the main Act and I was of the view that we need to define it. So, this is purely a technical issue. I have simply defined it as a committee that has been appointed by the CDFC to do a project. view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. I rise to support this Bill. Allow me to say that this is a very wonderful and creative Bill. The best part of this Bill was the fact that there is no new body that is being created by this Bill. I have heard our dear President saying that we have so many parastatals and statutory bodies being created by Parliament. They are bloating our workforce and wage bill. Therefore, I initially feared that this Bill is about to do the same but only for me to read Clause 2 and see that the interpretation of the term ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: First, is the issue of the inter-play between private and public entities in this Bill. There appears to be some form of confusion. I draw your attention to Clause 2 on the interpretation of the term “Information” and I read:- “Information is defined as includes all records held by a public entity---.” So, the operative term here is public entity. It, therefore, presumes that information which has been detailed in this Bill is only the one held by a public entity. I doubt as to whether that was the original intention of the drafter of this Bill. That is because ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: judicious and the determination is made therein. I draw the attention of the drafter to Clause 13 which is about correction of information. It is a good clause, but I was wondering on the issue of what we call “reliance of that information.” Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me your kind indulgence to read Clause 13. It provides:- “At the request of the applicant, a public entity or private body shall within a reasonable time, at its own expense, correct, update or annotate any The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of ... view
• 19 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: personal information held by it relating to the applicant, which is out of date, inaccurate or incomplete.” That is fine, but I was wondering whether when you get this information and then you make a reliance on it, for instance, you transact, and then it turns out that, that information was false. Should the person who provided that information bear some form of loss? I belong to the school of thought that, that person should be made to pay. A good example is an official search in the Ministry of Lands. If you conduct a search only for the search ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this amendment. I proposed an amendment to this law which I see has been captured. My idea was that we need to protect poor and bright students. We invest in them and then the Government also comes up with a mechanism to give them some money. 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
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: I have seen several proposals along that line; we shall have a situation where all those children in public schools, who are top students amongst the first quartile---“A quartile” means the first quarter of any list. Let us say that in county “x” from number one up to let us say number 25, assuming the students are 100, they are going to be selected and the list is taken to the relevant office and then there is scrutiny as to who is supposed to get funding from the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), the county or Equity Bank, if you are ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The rationale of that amendment is that we need to protect young and bright students who are unable to go through our public secondary schools. I have noted that, indeed, when you go to any constituency, you will find even top students in a public school failing to go to top notch schools. I have noted that secondary schools like Mangu High School and Alliance have now been privatised in a sense. Rarely will you find a sufficient number of students from public primary schools joining those secondary schools. To that extent, I support this Bill. I will seek the ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Those people do not have a union. It is very easy for us to forget them. But they perform the important role of inspecting schools, coming up with reports and ensuring that teachers do a productive job. I will see how that can be integrated into my amendments in order for us to help our inspectors ensure that our schools are inspected on a regular basis. Recently, I was analysing results in my constituency. I felt that something needed to be done. I found out that in a whole ward, only one or two schools managed to get an average ... view
• 18 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Bill, but allow me to raise some pertinent issues, which are not clear to me. The first issue I am going to raise regards tax relief. I have noted that we do not have any chapter in this Bill that deals with tax reliefs. In normal tax law, you will find that there are some people who get some reliefs, for instance, a married couple. The idea is to avoid what we call double taxation. One may probably argue that it is provided for in another law. I am not so ... view