Martin Peters Owino

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. Thank you. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am very grateful for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I want to echo what Hon. Kimunya said. We need to do some analysis. I wish the Senate did this, so that they can come up with a different allocation of revenue system. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Let me also talk of the issue of the pending bills which are made on the budgets. It has become a trend that pending bills are sort to be paid somewhere else. I do not think that is right. That should be looked into. At the same time, we have to look at the disbursement of the resources that we give to our counties. As much as we caution them, we also have to realise that they get their monies very late and then get these bills. That also needs to be looked into. What is The electronic version of ... view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: worrying me most as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Health is that we are still doing very poorly when it comes to the percentage as per the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that at least 10 per cent of GDP should be allocated to health. Many countries are doing very well on this. As we struggle nationally as the National Assembly, each and every county allocates its monies in different ways. We do not know what percentage it is. Some allocate 20 per cent, 5 per cent and some are very low. This ... view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Human resource for health is very key. I mentioned last time that this is capped when it comes to recurrent and capital development. However, look at it in this way: you cannot build a health centre and expect it to run without a nurse, clinical officer, or any other health personnel. At the same time, human resource is budgeted under Recurrent Expenditure. We should not go beyond 35 per cent of the Budget. The counties hands are also stuck in this. As a House, we should look into the ways and means of dealing with the human resource for health. ... view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: The other point which I want to make is the issue of roads. If you ask me as a Member of Parliament, the beatings I get are for poor roads. I cannot say how much my county government puts into my roads in Ndhiwa Constituency and to what standards. At one point, the construction of roads should be taken back to NG-CDF, so that we can take care of our constituency roads. Roads are as important as the health of the people. We should take them very seriously. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Lastly, I want to recommend that in the next allocation for the Senate, let us do this by regression or scaling up of funding. For example, why should we retain the current formula that is used by the CRA in a county that does so poorly in revenue collection or performance? We should look into those criteria and have a formula. There are some factors that should be factored in. For example, Homa Bay County is a disease burden. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and maternal death are the highest in the country. How comes those issues are not factored in ... view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to support this Bill with those reservations. view
• 13 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I rise to support this Vote. The President has put the manufacturing unit as part of the Big Four Agenda, which is good. My constituency is a rural one, but it is very rich in agriculture, minerals and livestock. 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
• 13 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: How I wish that we can devolve industries to the rural areas to create jobs for young people and also to be big manufacturing units. view