Rev. Mutava Musyimi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House today Thursday, 23rd April, 2015:- The Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the first Supplementary Budget for 2014/2015 Financial Year. I thank you. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to give Notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the first Supplementary Budget for 2014/2015 Financial Year laid on the Table of the House on Thursday 23rd April, 2015. view
• 23 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I thank you. view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, the Senate Amendments to the Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 11 of 2015) be now considered. Hon. Speaker, let me take this opportunity to, on behalf of Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, rehearse the information that this House is already fully aware of with respect to the Division of Revenue Bill, a matter that we prosecuted here very ably, and to which amendments were moved by the Senate. I just wish to remind the hon. Members of the amendments that the Senate is proposing. First ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thirdly, the Senate is proposing to introduce a new item to create a figure of Kshs4.4 billion to cater for what they are calling “the county emergency funds”. The total amount that they wish to increase to the money we have given them is close to Kshs8 billion. view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I stand here to remind hon. Members that there is a problem with this amendment, and it is a fairly serious problem. First of all, we need to remind ourselves that when the Senate was considering the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), which is the basis of the Division of Revenue Bill, it, indeed, adopted the Report, yet the same Senate which adopted the Report wishes to vary its own decision on a policy that they have adopted. That policy was very clear that the sharable revenue was Kshs258 billion, and other additions that were to come later would ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Secondly, according to the Public Finance Management Act, particularly Section 110, the County Government Executive Committee may establish the County Emergency Fund. Normally, this Fund is 2 per cent of the total revenue. For the Senate to ask that this House approves an amendment that gives to the county governments an extra Kshs4.4 billion for an emergency fund, knowing that we have made available sufficient funds for Level Five Hospitals, is beyond us as the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We cannot understand why the county governments cannot go to the funds The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is ... view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: they have been given and from there get their emergency funds. That is what any spending agency does. view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I also wish to say that if we approve this amendment, we shall escalate the public debt. The monies that are sought are unfunded. We are not told where the money will come from. We have a responsibility to make sure that we do not pass on to future generations debts that do not make sense to this hon. House. view
• 21 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Finally, if you check the Public Finance Management Act (PFM), Section 187, there is established, by the PFM Act, what we call “Inter-Governmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC)”. That Council is chaired by no lesser person than the Deputy President. It has the Cabinet Secretary to the National Treasury. It has, among other people, the Chairperson of the Council of Governors, every county executive member for finance and the Cabinet Secretary responsible for inter-governmental relations. The IBEC considers the contents of the BPS, the Budget review and Outlook Paper and the Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy, among many other things. view