Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2561 to 2570 of 3161.

• 22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: So, hon. Speaker, we have to look at areas of sex selection. It is now possible to determine the sex of the baby you want. When you have the embryos and you want to manipulate them to determine which sex you want, what are the ethical issues that are involved? What research can you do with embryos? view
• 22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: So, hon. Speaker, we have to look at areas of sex selection. It is now possible to determine the sex of the baby you want. When you have the embryos and you want to manipulate them to determine which sex you want, what are the ethical issues that are involved? What research can you do with embryos? view
• 22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Can you say this is an embryo of a human being, but you want to test what happens if you cross breed a man and a dog? If we do not have a law, people will do those things. We must then say: Who has the technical capacity to do this? Having the technical capacity is not a very important thing. What about the code of conduct of people who are given the power to manipulate the human genome? Do we take any doctor who is qualified and then say “This doctor can do this”? What about his conduct in ... view
• 22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Can you say this is an embryo of a human being, but you want to test what happens if you cross breed a man and a dog? If we do not have a law, people will do those things. We must then say: Who has the technical capacity to do this? Having the technical capacity is not a very important thing. What about the code of conduct of people who are given the power to manipulate the human genome? Do we take any doctor who is qualified and then say “This doctor can do this”? What about his conduct in ... view
• 22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: interest. We may need an amendment that says that this Authority will not conduct research. Overall, I support this Bill because we need a law on this. The only thing that I will plead with the Mover about will be that between the second stage when we have passed it and the Committee Stage when we are going to move amendments, there should be a lot more consultations. Let other people come in and give their ideas. I know there will be cultural, social and religious issues. It is important that we give that chance, so that people give their ... view
• 22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: interest. We may need an amendment that says that this Authority will not conduct research. Overall, I support this Bill because we need a law on this. The only thing that I will plead with the Mover about will be that between the second stage when we have passed it and the Committee Stage when we are going to move amendments, there should be a lot more consultations. Let other people come in and give their ideas. I know there will be cultural, social and religious issues. It is important that we give that chance, so that people give their ... view
• 22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I know that legally educated people have spoken. I know that people who understand the Constitution and the Standing Orders inside out have spoken. But I also know that all of us here, after gathering information, will have the right to make a decision. You said that you are going to make a ruling. The question is that a Petition was forwarded to a Committee. As a Committee investigates the issues raised in the Petition, they find a matter touching on that Petition, which may, if investigated by the Committee, change the content and purpose of ... view
• 22 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: make a decision that changes everything, later on, they can prosecute that matter differently. What if the decision they make on the Petition actually makes it impossible? If the best issue for the removal of these people turns out to be the irregular sale of Integrity Centre, and we remove them, shall we, later on, say that we shall reinstate them? Hon. Speaker, I put this before you because I know that you will make a ruling. We are gathering it from the legally educated people, and the people who know the Standing Orders inside out. We are just making ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate. As a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I support the Committee’s position that we reject the amendments that have come from the Senate. I want to bring out one important issue, there is a lacuna in the law and in the Constitution that I think if closed, will help us so that every year we do not come to this position where after the Division of Revenue Bill---With regard to the Budget Policy Statement, the national Government has always carried out very good research. ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: instrument and the 15 per cent in the Budget. We do not have information from the counties or what their needs are. We have looked at this in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The Parliament Budget Office is doing research on it. This matter should be brought to the notice of the Senate so that we look at a process where before we go to division of revenue there has been some work at the county level which has been collated so that we have an idea which then helps us at the time of division of revenue. Even though ... view