Tom Joseph Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: The second one is this thing called scrutiny. This thing has been confused by many chairpersons and their committees. They think that it is determining the merit of a Bill. view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: The second one is this thing called scrutiny. This thing has been confused by many chairpersons and their committees. They think that it is determining the merit of a Bill. view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: In another language, that may not be known to all others, it is called prima facie. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. One only needs to determine issues as have been stated in Standing Order No.114(2), that a Bill is talking about something that is sensible, it is formatted in a correct manner perceived by law, it does not concern counties and it is not an ordinary or a special Bill. The problem is that they want to determine the merit of the Bill and scrutinise it as though it has gone for public participation. view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: In another language, that may not be known to all others, it is called prima facie. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. One only needs to determine issues as have been stated in Standing Order No.114(2), that a Bill is talking about something that is sensible, it is formatted in a correct manner perceived by law, it does not concern counties and it is not an ordinary or a special Bill. The problem is that they want to determine the merit of the Bill and scrutinise it as though it has gone for public participation. view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: It gives me ideas as a Member who sits in the Committee on Rules and Procedure. We probably need to put in the Standing Orders the threshold that prepublication should have so that within the 21 days, a committee should churn them out. We should mention certain things that need to be done. If within 21 days it has not been churned out, I suggest the HBC should have authority from the Standing Orders to do what they are doing today. This is very important and I see the Deputy Whip of the Majority Party is here on behalf of ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: It gives me ideas as a Member who sits in the Committee on Rules and Procedure. We probably need to put in the Standing Orders the threshold that prepublication should have so that within the 21 days, a committee should churn them out. We should mention certain things that need to be done. If within 21 days it has not been churned out, I suggest the HBC should have authority from the Standing Orders to do what they are doing today. This is very important and I see the Deputy Whip of the Majority Party is here on behalf of ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: This should not only be done on this. There are several others that are pending. Even the Budget and Appropriations Committee, first should strictly do this within 21 days, so that they can tell us if it is a money Bill or not. They should not go to the merit, of discussion of the Bill, because Standing Order No.114 mandates the Hon. Speaker together with the National Treasury to make comments on how to deal with money Bills. So, the Budget and Appropriations Committee should be tied within a period of time, failure to which, the HBC should be allowed ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: This should not only be done on this. There are several others that are pending. Even the Budget and Appropriations Committee, first should strictly do this within 21 days, so that they can tell us if it is a money Bill or not. They should not go to the merit, of discussion of the Bill, because Standing Order No.114 mandates the Hon. Speaker together with the National Treasury to make comments on how to deal with money Bills. So, the Budget and Appropriations Committee should be tied within a period of time, failure to which, the HBC should be allowed ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much. I support the Motion. view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much. I support the Motion. view