Dr. Naomi Shaban

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Machogu and your group. The first and most important thing I want to just mention is that the Catering Fund Management Committee is going to be a reality. The regulations are ready. They should be tabled any time so that we can move to operationalise the Catering Fund and be able to manage it. That Fund is going to be managed along the lines of the mortgage and car loans. It will be with that kind of seriousness so that our Members can get maximum gains and value from the Fund. Why am I saying this? These are funds which ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: On the catering issue, we welcome the suggestion that some of those facilities can be outsourced and we can get somebody to run them. We are aware that catering is giving us services. The only thing I need to point out is this: We have staff who have been employed and we need to be sensitive to this issue. That particular department has had issues which we are looking into to make sure the people who are working there can give us maximum value for being staff of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and for serving the people in those ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: If we all put our heads to this Report in addition to the findings of the Commission itself on this issue, we are actually going to make sure that catering is going to be an issue where Members are not really going to complain, but enjoy their services. Some of the facilities are going to be outsourced and some will remain within the PSC. Now, there is a suggestion that the staff members who work in those areas need to go for refresher courses. We are working out on something that would allow them to go because you cannot allow ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Commission to look at ways and means of seeing that they are able to go and train the people who work in the catering department especially when we are on recess, so that they can maximise on the time they are going to be there. They have said how much of refreshing they need and the Commission is ready for that and we should be able to move in that direction. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The other suggestion which was coming from Members’ Services and Facilities Committee was on the issue of getting managers to manage the different restaurants that we are going to run in this place, so that they can be run smoothly. Somebody would be a food and beverage manager, who will take proper responsibility for all the workers who work under them. That is one thing that as a Commission we have also looked into, and we think it is a step in the right direction. Without talking too much on that particular issue, soon we should be tabling the regulations ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: There is a provision for gym and offices for all our Members, especially the ones who have not been housed in the other buildings, and the ones who would be moved to that other side. Since we spend a lot of money on rent, we should be able to do a saving and that money will be used where Members are concerned. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The committee rooms which are here were meant for less than 15 people in the past. When I came in 16 years ago, a committee had only 11 Members and most of the times, not all the Members would be there. It was just enough for 11 Members. This House has had 349 Members and we went to 29 Members per committee. When we went to 29 members, we realised it was impossible. Those committee rooms would not be able to hold so many Members and it was counter-productive having so many Members. The numbers have then been reduced to ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Meanwhile, Members have been complaining about the gym facilities. Because of those complaints, the Commission has also moved on to see how we can improve on that service. But apart from improving on that service, because even the space is not adequate, we have then put aside some small facilitation for Members. We had done some facilitation at the Hill Park Hotel. Hill Park Hotel is under the medical scheme. The hotel is far from where most Members live and we have said there is some little facilitation for people to have membership elsewhere where they prefer, but it might ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: On sanitation, this is a promise that we are giving. A lot is going on right now and we are going to make sure that the sanitation considering the numbers… The washrooms, especially the ones before the lounge, are carrying a very big workload and we need to improve them as 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
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: quickly as possible. That is because they are giving us a bad stench and a bad name and that is not good enough. So, something is… view