Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: When you are dealing with Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, we do not have as much opportunity as when we are dealing with the other Bills to interrogate them and do serious public participation. The Bill is amending the Merchant Shipping Act by bringing actors who were not before in the Act into operation. It is just being done through the hand of a Cabinet Secretary. Even if you were to do that, it would have been better if we looked at the whole Act. Once you open it, it will be everybody’s field. In that context, I do not ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: If you look at the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, there was a resolution for the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to have more than one accounting officer. As much as that may be good, that is a major change. Further, I find it unacceptable that we want to use the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill to legalise the resolution of a commission, which resolution, at the time, was illegal or not in law. That is not acceptable in my mind. On the Kenya School of Law, I agree totally that it has actually become a bottleneck. There are very many ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I rise to support, but when I look at all the amendments that I see, they all tend to give the Executive excessive powers like this particular one. It is giving the accounting officer power to overrule the Review Board while in the first place; the review was done because the accounting officer had done something that somebody was not happy with. How then can the Board sit and afterwards, the same officer whose decision was being reviewed is now countering that? Even in reducing the review time and all this, there is a tendency to ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. First of all, I must congratulate Hon. Kuria. I think these ideas are fantastic and he 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
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand to support the Chair’s amendment. What is coming out is that in the amendment of this Act, there are many penalties. A few penalties have been picked out and changed grievously, leaving many other penalties which are quite small. I think there will be disharmony in that Act. I support the amendment. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I have noticed what is going on and I agree that the Chair is moving with the mood of the House. I agree that because it is betting, we are in the right direction. I, however, still think that the Chair should explain. There is an issue where the House may think differently. So, it is important that if he is going to withdraw, then he can explain. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: We support this, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. But there is a major issue as we stated earlier. It is about miscellaneous amendments. What is happening here? We are taking time in miscellaneous amendments. These are giving us examples that we should have very minor changes when dealing with miscellaneous amendments. We support you on this one, Hon. Chairman. It is also important to know. That is why I was saying that the Chairman should explain every point, even if he is withdrawing it. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, on this one, we support the Chairperson. We are seeing some order in the disorder. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: No. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, every time there is a principal issue, it is better for the Chair to give guidance. The issue that has been raised here is that, if there is an amendment to a section, does it open it for other amendments that are not on the Order Paper? We have seen that happen before. There is need to give guidance in future so that Members know that just because part of the section has been amended, you cannot now go and amend the proposed amendment in another section. We are going forward unguided on that. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: This is going to be a major change in policy and it means that all employers will be contributing what their employees contribute. To begin with, it is a huge burden on employers. There was a lot of public participation and stakeholder participation and this was highly contested. The argument employers were giving was that they are already providing healthcare services in other forms. Another thing is that this was definitely just going to double the income of NHIF in one go. The Committee felt that, probably, it is something we may need in the future but now, it may ... view