Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1301 to 1310 of 3046.

• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the district level, we work through the District Education Board (DEB) and District Environment Committee (DEC). The DEC is the one that advises the DEB on the appropriateness of the trees to be planted. There is a policy now in place that 10 per cent of agricultural land be converted into a forest. For us to be able to realize that, the agenda between the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of Education was to raise as many seedlings as possible. The part that may be weak, and that is where the hon. ... view
• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Climate Change Donor Co-ordination Secretariat is co-chaired between the donor group and the Ministry. The Ministry is doing it on behalf of the Government and it is actually under the PS. It is chaired by the PS or somebody the PS delegates. So, that is our contact person in the Ministry. view
• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, the person who chairs is the PS in my Ministry. He is Mr. Ali Mohammed. He has the powers to delegate his job to any of the other officers in the Climate Change Secretariat. But recently, we have also announced that we will have a Climate Change Co-ordinator and that person has not been recruited yet because we will co-ordinate from one specific unit. view
• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The late Mr. Kisia not Kisina previously worked for the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and, therefore, had his old main personal file maintained in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. These files were reported misplaced making it very difficult for my Ministry to process the death gratuity claim on time. My Ministry, however, has managed to reconstruct the late Mr. Kesia’s records and processed the death gratuity claim which was submitted to the Director of Pensions Department in the Treasury vide letter Ref. No.EFT82069346 dated 14th April, 2011. (b) I would ... view
• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to say it is regrettable that they took about two years to get this. However, as I mentioned, this was a staff member who had moved from one Ministry to another. When one Ministry tells you that the documents are not available you can only wait and hope that they will be available. In addition, I also want to mention that the next-of-kin also took time in acquiring the required letters of administration, so it was not fully because of the Ministry. But yes, with IT now I think this will be very easy and ... view
• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the best undertaking a Ministry can give is to release a letter to the Director of Pensions, Pensions Department. We have no control once we send the letter. So, I cannot undertake to ensure that the Treasury pays. If we have a problem with the Treasury, we can deal with that, but I do not see any problem as soon as the reconstruction is done and the details are given. I have a copy of the letter that was given and we even undertook to harmonize the names of the deceased. All the information that they require ... view
• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that question begs for details that I do not have. I have the details of when he was hired, when he moved from one grade to another, but I cannot tell the translation into Kenya Shillings from the documents that I have. We even have a little overpayment of Kshs18,000 which was supposed to be deducted. The details are there, but it will take time for me to calculate and give this House the figures. In the reconstruction, we have shown from the day the person was hired in 1981 and as he changed grades from Grade ... view
• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, our communication to the next-of-kin, Agnes Katunge Titus, was a letter sent to P.O. Box 31 Emali. The letter that is given shows the gratuity including the calculations, but we did not indicate to her what the Pensions Department will do. It is the job of the Pensions Department to calculate. Ours was to confirm when the deceased was employed in whichever Ministry because he exited from our Ministry. We indicated the dates when promotions took place and the grades as he progressed. It was the job of the Pensions Department to calculate. I have a letter ... view
• 3 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Kenya has Sessional Paper No.6 of 1999 titled: Environment and Development as a Key environmental policy document and the basis for the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act (EMCA) of 1999. The EMCA, 1999, is a framework law that provides for effective co-ordination of regulation of all actions directed at or likely to have influence on the environment. There are also sectoral policies, for example, in agriculture, water and land that support environmental sector governance. (b) The Draft National Policy of 2008 was an effort by the Ministry to address identified gaps in ... view
• 3 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I cannot say the exact terms of reference for the taskforce, but the real task that has been given to this taskforce is to review all laws and policies in the Ministry in line with the new Constitution. They should align them first to the national Government and then to the county governments when it is possible. They are handling all our laws both environmental and in the mineral sector. view