Dr. Naomi Shaban

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1111 to 1120 of 1513.

• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I wish to begin by making a correction regarding the title of the convention. What we have is known as “the Hague Convention of 25th October, 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction” and not adoption. This notwithstanding, Kenya has not ratified the convention in question. (b) Between the years 2008 and 2010, 197 Kenyan children have been adopted by foreigners. Figures for the year 2011 will be available at the end of the year. (c) To protect children against possible trafficking, several measures have been put in ... view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the ratification of the convention will be done in line with Article 94(5) of the new Constitution, which requires Parliament to play a role in the process, unlike in the past when this was a preserve of the Cabinet. The Ministry sought the advice of the Attorney-General’s office and was advised that the latter was drafting the Ratification of International Treaties Bill. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as of last year October, we had been able to come up with a certificate of conformity under Article 23 of the Convention, which is given to all foreigners who are adopting children; that is the only way in which we can be sure that the child who is being adopted, and the people who are adopting them, have undergone full vetting by the Adoption Committee. view
• 24 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I second. view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Juja Constituency has a total of 650 beneficiaries of the Cash Transfer Programme to Older Persons whose list I hereby table. view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: (b)The Cash Transfer to Older Persons is disbursed through the Postal Corporation of Kenya to the beneficiaries every two months. view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the legibility criteria which is used is on households with an older person of 65 years and above. This should be extremely poor households that are not enrolled in any other regular cash transfer programme. The identified older person must not be receiving any kind of pension. I just want to state that because of the limitations of the funds that we were being allocated by the Treasury, it was difficult for us to cover more than what we covered. This year, the scaling up will be lessened by the fact that Parliament passed a decision ... view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are other factors that we look at. This is whether the grandparents are taking care of orphaned children. All those factors are put into consideration. I also want to point out that in the larger Thika District, 650 beneficiaries are from Juja while 100 are from Gatanga. So, you can see that even in that situation, they were given more. view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I appreciate that there is need for the Government to allocate enough funds. However, we have over 1.8 million persons in this age bracket. Since they are 1.8 million, even if we were to pay 1 million people - right now we are covering only 33,000 households in the whole country – at the rate that Parliament has asked, that would mean Kshs24 billion per year. When people were making considerations here on how to reallocate funds, whereas we had suggested that some money goes towards the cash transfer for the older persons for us to ... view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish it were possible for me to cover up to 1 million persons. That way, we would be sure that all the people aged 65 and above who are not receiving pension are in this cash transfer. However, it is not possible as long as we are not given funds from the Treasury. I just want to say, recently, from the Budget, Parliament reallocated Kshs845 million which was meant for another programme. We wanted to put it on the Older Persons Cash Transfer Programme, but Parliament gave it to the Disaster Management. So, really, there ... view