Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to report that the Committee of the Whole has considered The Copyright (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.33 of 2017) and seek leave to sit again tomorrow. view
• 14 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to report progress that the Committee of the Whole has considered the Public Private Partnerships (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 52 of 2017) and seeks leave to sit again tomorrow. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. First, I start by supporting your very detailed Communication and thank you for giving us a summary of what we did previously because it makes us reflect and realise how much we did in the last session. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: As we start this session, Mr. Speaker, Sir, our agenda is cut out. There are two main events that will further shape what we will do. We will have the Devolution Conference and the Legislative Summit. However, we hope that before that, we will have a retreat to shape how this session will be. This will be very important so that the Devolution Conference will be result-oriented. I know that we have had two Devolution Conferences as a House in a friendlier manner. However, we need to ask ourselves what we delivered at the end of the Conference. It is ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to support this Motion and congratulate our very able team that has been put before us today. There is no doubt that the team will perform, deliver and guide the House appropriately. As they do that, they should look at how to prioritise issues that have been haunting us for a while. In particular, I want to raise the issue of maize because we have a report that is before the House. That report should be tabled before the House for deliberations and adoption. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I almost called to request you to recall the House because we know that farmers are having a rough time at the moment. The maize they harvested in 2017 was not taken and we are told what they harvested in 2018 will be taken in minimum numbers. In fact, when I was in my county, I realised that some farmers will not deliver more than 10 bags according to the allocation to the county. It is therefore important that we get those reports, so that Senators can see the magnitude of the problem that farmers are facing ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: As we do prioritisation, we know that we are in a bad situation currently because of the number of counties whose nurses are on strike. It is important that we start looking at those issues as urgent topics that this House must address, so that this Senate can express itself on what should be done. We hoped that by devolving health, we were actually taking services closer to the people. No governor would dare allow their people to go without nurses or doctors. In fact, the absence of nurses means that doctors and pharmacists cannot perform their duties. We must ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: We also hope that the House Business Committee (HBC) will look at topical issues that need to be addressed by committees. We should also make our committees more accountable, both to the House and the House Business Committee HBC. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: There is also the issue of whether all the functions that were required to be devolved were devolved. I am raising this because we are almost in our third year and we need to have a lasting impact on devolution itself. For us to have a lasting impact on devolution, we must look at accountability of resources in various dockets; agriculture and health being the key ministries that we need to study. If devolution was done, how much of the resources that we spent in 2012 followed the functions that were taken down? We need to answer that question so ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: With that, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I congratulate the team again. It is them who will guide and lead us. We know that they have the ability. I thank you. view