Prof. Prof. Olweny

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 921 to 930 of 1845.

• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that boarding schools have matrons, but I do not know whether the Ministry of Public Health or the Ministry of Medical Services has seconded nurses or medical staff to our schools. I do not have that information. view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as far as the Question is concerned, I think justice has been done to it. But if the Chair orders so, we can get the post-mortem result and table it. view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, could you give us a week? view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: (a) The Ministry has failed to implement the placement of ECD teachers on the Government payroll due to lack of sufficient funds from the Treasury. The Ministry requested for Kshs1.6 billion to mainstream ECD to primary school education cycle but only Kshs320 million was allocated in the Financial Year, 2010/2011. This money is not enough to implement the programme in the 18,000 primary schools and the feeder centres. Instead, it will be disbursed to 8,000 ECD centres countrywide as community support grants. view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: (b)The ECD implementation plan would be rolled out once adequate funds are available from the Treasury. view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the statement that the hon. Member has made is correct. It is our policy and it will be done. It is in Sessional Paper No.1 of 2005. It is also in the Kenya Education Support Programme but as I have said, we lack funds. view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will be difficult to share that money among the 18,000 centres we have within primary schools. That excludes the other centres outside primary schools. Each of the 18,000 primary schools in this country has an ECD centre. In addition to that there are thousands others. In essence, we have over 30,000 ECD centres in this country and each of them has one teacher. How would we share this money? It is too little to share among those schools. So, we will give it to the centres as support funds to assist in the development of ... view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with Government funds, you do not use it on anything else if it was not in the original Budget approved by Parliament. What we have in the Economic Stimulus Package is what will be done with that money as indicated in the items in the Budget. So, we cannot deviate from that. view
• 6 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The hon. Member for Gwasi has talked of a rumour circulating but does he count on the same rumours? view