Peter Kenneth

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 181 to 190 of 438.

• 4 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The current inflationary tendencies in the economy are caused by a number of factors amongst them being increased prices of food, wines and spirits, rising costs of cooking gas and charcoal and rising housing costs. (b) In order to contain the inflationary spiral, the Government has put in place a number of measures such as pursuit of prudent monetary policies that support low and stable rates of inflation and curbing of unnecessary Government spending and keeping the domestic borrowing within target. view
• 4 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, it is not a question of pride. It is a question of the truth that the growth rate has been at 6.3 per cent. However, I have said that arising from increased prices of food, there has been inflation. I have also said that the only way to curb that inflation is to pursue prudent monetary policies that we are doing, and probably, to invest a September 4, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3639 little bit more in improving road transport to be able to curb the rising costs of foodstuffs. view
• 4 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in May it was 6.3 per cent, June, 11.1 per cent and in July, 2007, it was 13.6 per cent. view
• 4 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have actually given statistics of the overall inflation and not the underlying inflation. We can tackle underlying inflation by tackling a wider sense of growth. However, we cannot be able to tackle the overall inflation unless we employ prudent monetary policies. view
• 4 Sep 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this House has my assurance on that. view
• 29 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of clarification, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. view
• 29 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Yes, on the way forward, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 29 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: It is not on this, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 29 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, all the points that Mr. Muturi has raised arise from the strategic plan of the Ministry and not the actual Vote for this financial year. It is from the expected votes for the years to come. For now, I think we should confine ourselves to what is in the financial budget of the Ministry for this year. view
• 29 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for recognising me finally. First of all, I would like to congratulate the Ministry for a job well done. Although the sentiments that have been expressed are after the congratulations, I would like to encourage the Minister to continue de-politicising the Ministry. I think he has done a very good job of de-politicising that Ministry. Secondly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to encourage the Ministry to see how it can share synergies with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, so that we can take advantage. The ... view