29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Do you mind giving me a chance a few minutes from now, just after one speaker or two? I am sorry. I got held up.
view
29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. We do not need to belabour this issue. Members have said that we do not have the National Housing Development Fund yet. This will affect the employers because they will contribute a certain percentage. Public participation was not done on the Fund. The employers and employees will contribute certain amounts of money. We will put it in a pool. Who will control it? Do we have a board? We do not have it. I invoke Standing Order No. 95 for you to put the Question, so that we negative this amendment.
view
29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman.
view
29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Finally, the Chair can see me from that end. Perhaps, I look like the chairs or the seats.
view
29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
My colour seems to be like so or you could be colour blind on the other end. That is a joke. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Hon. Nassir has already mentioned all that I would have said, but I want to add one thing. The last bit of Section (b) actually indicates: “at least, five per centum of the gross proceeds of which is to be devoted to the object for which the lottery is promoted.” 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
29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
This is more or less sugar coating. I know the term sugar has been so much in this House but, in this particular instance, it is actually sugar coating and we do not see where that value goes. Let me put my point across. I think 35 per cent is good enough for us to indicate that lottery and gambling is something that is eating up our society. Therefore, I reject this proposal for that matter.
view
22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Petition by the Hon. Member is quite in order. The conditions in Taita Taveta are similar to those of North Eastern. However, I feel that Members want to crowd the little resources that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has to expand this facility to most parts of the country. Areas of hardship are gazetted and they undergo due diligence. There are certain set parameters that you must meet. So, let us not just insist to have all teachers in several places being paid hardship allowances because that will beat the logic of designating ...
view
22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
So, as I support the Petition.
view
22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you. So, as I support this, let us be wary of the fact that the Departmental Committee on Education and Research should not be used as a blanket to rubber stamp issues of wanting to pay teachers hardship allowances. Hardship is specific for certain areas and there are conditions and parameters to be met. So, let us not burden taxpayers by saying that several places which are not gazetted as hardship areas be paid this allowance. However, as I said, Taita Taveta has similar conditions with those of North Eastern.
view
22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
I support. Thank you.
view