Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 801 to 810 of 1650.

• 18 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move that the Committee do report to the House its consideration of the Presidential Memorandum on The Price Control (Essential Goods) Bill and its approval thereof without amendments. view
• 18 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Report. view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sorry I do not have an extra copy. I did not know that he has not received the written answer. view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you cannot call donor funding an allocation from the Government, because these are funds--- view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I am saying is that if you look at the schedule to the Budget, you will clearly see the amounts of money that have been allocated to the REA since it was established three years ago. What, perhaps, the hon. Member is talking about is the Budget, in respect of which we are awaiting approval of the Appropriation Bill. Otherwise, over the years--- view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the first instance, I want to say that donor funds are funds which are negotiated. They are only incorporated into the Budget once they have been signed for by the Government. They do not depend on us, as the Government; it is the Ministry of Energy which--- view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, because of this, in the first year, it appeared as if there was a lot of money for REA because donor funds were quite substantial. However, in the subsequent years, donor funding kept on reducing. It was not Government allocation. The Government only allocates money on the basis of revenue it expects to receive. Donor funding depends on other factors, and not on the Government. The grants that we give to REA have been increasing from the time the Authority was established up to the last financial year. The Government has not reduced the grants it has ... view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: As for the Budget allocation for financial year 2010/2011, the Appropriation Bill has not been approved by Parliament. view
• 16 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am referring to financial year 2011/2012. That is what hon. Ekwe Ethuro was asking about. view