Junet Sheikh Nuh

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 961 to 970 of 1550.

• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise to second the Motion. Committees are very important organs of this Parliament. Most of the works we do in Parliament go through Committees. What happens in committees is more important than what happens on the Floor of the House. view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we managed to assign every Member a Committee they had applied for. We tried as much as possible to allocate each Member a Committee they had shown interest in, but the slots were very few. You remember that in the last Parliament we had a committee membership of 29. The numbers have been reduced from 29 to 19. The reduction has affected the membership of committees. If a Member is placed in one departmental committee, he would be very lucky to be placed in another one - It is next to impossible. This is actually the first list. ... view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: In the last Parliament, the committee membership was 29. Attendance of committee meetings was very poor. Standing Orders say that if a Member misses four consecutive sittings, he or she is supposed to be removed from that committee. I hope this time that will be taken care of. At the time of assigning Members committees, every Members fights to be in a committee he wants, but when sittings begin, raising a quorum of five Members becomes difficult. So, many times committees adjourn because they do not have quorum on a particular day and set another day for a sitting. Sometimes ... view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: When a Member is appointed to a committee, we expect elections to be conducted. The clerks of the committees will issue notices for Members to meet to elect their chairmen or chairladies and vice-chairpersons. Jubilee Party has already appointed the chairpersons and the vice-chairpersons of committees. That is un-procedural. Elections are supposed to be conducted and Members are supposed to be given the chance to vote for the 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
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: person they want to be the chairperson. Imposing people as chairpersons and vice-chairpersons is not allowed by the Standing Orders. I am told the Leader of the Majority Party stood in State House and read names of Members who will chair the various committees. He is not an appointing authority. I want to talk for the silent majority of Jubilee Members who are really uncomfortable in the way the appointment of chairpersons to committees has been done. view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: There is no opposition to Government in this House. We are all Members of Parliament under the leadership of the Speaker. We are the majority…. view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Member is new and he has pronounced my name like that of a lady. When one is dressed like a Serjeant-at-Arms, in a green suit, one may be mistaken to be part of them. view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. What I was alluding to is in the public domain and within the corridors of Parliament. Certain people have been anointed as chairmen and chairladies. Both the Minority and Majority sides are supposed to participate in the election of persons to committees. view
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: If you look at developed democracies, they have committees that are chaired by the Minority side, but here we are all subjected to numbers. So long as the Majority side has more numbers than the Minority in any committee, the chairperson must come from the Majority. That 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
• 14 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: is a very bad doctrine if we are to stay as a single unified Parliament. The division caused by that kind of endorsement stays with us for five years. That is what causes divisions and disagreements. I want Members of Jubilee who are interested to be chairpersons and vice- chairpersons of committees, and have not been anointed by the Leader of the Majority Party to talk to me. I have numbers for them. We shall elect them and give them Members who will vote for them. They should not allow themselves to be subjected to the tyranny of numbers within ... view