Peter Kenneth

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 301 to 310 of 438.

• 26 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as a matter of law, every commercial health service provider is required to register with KRA. I have provided the list of all the registered private health service providers. It is a matter of compliance that every health service provider must register with KRA. It is the duty of KRA to ensure that everybody complies with that law. view
• 26 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Nairobi Hospital runs on a commercial basis. Everybody who is admitted to that hospital pays for the services. In fact, it is one of the most expensive hospitals in town! I do not understand the basis upon which Mr. J. Nyagah, who is aspiring to lead this country at some point, would like to give grants to people who are doing very well commercially. view
• 26 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am flattered with the belief that I will serve in the Cabinet of the eastern part of the mountain. However, the point I am making is that Nairobi Hospital has attracted patients from all over the region, purely because it practises best commercial practices. They charge for that service whether the people are from neighbouring regions or this country. It would be the best practice for all hospitals to run on commercial basis, without the Government giving them any grants. view
• 26 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have given the statistics of what is collected from private health service providers. I think Mr. Mwandawiro will appreciate the fact that, the amount collected is not sufficient to run public health sector. As a matter of priority, the health sector is among the top five sectors that are given a lot of money in the national Budget that we approved the other day. Therefore, the Government provides much more money than what the private health sector collects. If the hon. Member wants me to confine what is collected purely to public health, then it ... view
• 20 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) In the financial year 2003/2004, a total of Kshs12,000,278,240 and Kshs4,447,262 was not spent under the Recurrent and Development Votes respectively. In the financial year 2004/2005, a total of Kshs7,000,145,000 was not spent under Recurrent Vote and Kshs25,800,432,182 under Development Vote. (b) Authority to Incur Expenditure is normally administered by the respective Accounting Officers. It is, therefore, difficult for the Treasury to establish whether the Accounting Officers had issued AIEs for funds returned as unspent balances. (c) All the unspent balances were surrendered to the Exchequer at the end of ... view
• 20 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the first place, since the money was unspent, it means it never left the Exchequer. The money that was voted for the Development Vote was not utilised. Probably, the Accounting Officers did not issue the necessary AIEs. As I said here two weeks ago, while answering a specific Question by Mr. Wario of Bura Constituency, one of the actions we have taken at the beginning of this financial year is to ensure that proper expenditure of money that has been voted for is spent in the course of a financial year. That is part ... view
• 20 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the question that hon. Sambu is asking is totally different from what we are discussing. However, we also stand accused, as hon. Members, if we do not spend our CDF money. The point is, we have taken the necessary action to ensure that all the money that has been voted is spent within that financial year. Secondly, we have gone ahead and started a Budget Implementation Unit, at the Treasury, to ensure that we assess early enough, budgets for the respective Ministries. view
• 20 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that has been the practice. In a case where a Vote has not been utilised, it is reallocated to the next financial year. I want to stress that the only way we can move forward is to ensure that whatever has been voted during a financial year is spent within the same financial year, so that all the projects which are meant to be carried out are, indeed, undertaken. view
• 20 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to begin with, I want to lay on the Table a copy of the list that Eng. Muriuki has asked for. view
• 20 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Secondly, I have said, and will repeat again, that we expect from this year that all the money voted will be spent as it has been put view