Richard Onyonka

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 581 to 590 of 818.

• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree. Unfortunately, we have been handling this matter very casually. view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I believe that is a good request. We have the capacity, as a Ministry, to come with up with a framework. view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I promise to do so. view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, first of all, I would like to state very clearly that I am opposed to this Motion. I am opposed to the Motion not because it has not been well-thought-out, but because the economic logic of it does not make sense. I will try and explain this to my view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: colleagues so that they understand what I am saying. As a student of economics, a subsidy only works when you are providing the subsidy for production. A subsidy only works when you produce items that will come into the market cheaply. However, a subsidy cannot work if you will provide it for consumption. The simple logic is that if you, today, decided, as my colleagues have said, that you will provide a subsidy of Kshs20 per liter of fuel, what would happen if the Kshs20 is taken because the fuel must be bought from the traders who are bringing in ... view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, that is a contribution. Let me be very clear. When you take a bag of fertilizer and decide that you will subsidize the price of the fertilizer to Kshs1,200 instead of Kshs3,000, the argument is that you are helping the farmer produce maize at an acceptable price at the end of the consumption chain. That is the whole reason of creating a subsidy. However, let us make an assumption. We will, for example, give subsidy for maize which has already been produced. The argument is very simple. The farmer will increase his price so that you ... view
• 27 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: always succeeded. For example, you can say: Let all wheat farmers supply wheat to the makers of bread. If the Government realizes that bread is expensive, then we can give the subsidy to the suppliers of bread because the product has already been produced. However, if you say that you will allow people who are supplying fuel into our country and you give them a subsidy, they will continue increasing the prices. That is my argument. I oppose. view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Even though the issue that Mr. Mwau is raising is quite substantive and weighty, it is critical that he realizes that for you to discuss the President of the USA, the President of Kenya and the Prime Minister of Kenya, you need a substantive Motion to do that. view