Robert Pukose

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill that has come in an omnibus form. We are talking of amending 42 Acts, which are touching on various areas. This is challenging because you will find that they are contentious and it will not be proper to put all of them together. At the time they will be put to vote, I do not know whether we will be voting per amendment or we will vote for the whole Miscellaneous Act. When I look at the Leadership and Integrity Act, one ... view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: in issues that affect the community especially in terms of resource mobilization and all these other issues. So, indirectly, this is a way of taking away responsibility to assist our communities where we come from. If you are a Member of Parliament and you are not able to engage yourself in resource mobilisation for your communities, including collection of money to assist them in harambee and sending children to school, it creates a problem. Your opponent can undertake such activities and at the end of the day take credit for the same, and you will have nothing to say. So, ... view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am in agreement with the proposal to competitively recruit the Chief Executive Officer of the NHIF as proposed in the Act. However, the same proposal undermines the second part, which talks of the membership. It excludes other key stakeholders. It excludes serious contributors. The Kenya National Union of Teacher (KNUT), the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), the medical practitioners unions, the Federation of Kenya Employees (FKE) and other serious stakeholders have been excluded. That is not the right way to do it because as much as we want a lean and responsive body, we must ... view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: In terms of the Act on the advocates, where we are removing the Director of Public Prosecutions from participating as a member of the board, I think it is wrong. The Director of Public Prosecutions is a stakeholder, and he might be able to prosecute an advocate who is found to have seriously breached the law. I think we shall be missing the point because it means that the Director of Public Prosecutions will not have an opportunity to access the evidence that he needs to prosecute an individual. In a way, we shall be making ourselves immune to prosecution ... view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the other issue is about the Salaries and Remunerations Commission. As clearly pointed out, the drafters of the Constitution felt that it should be a part-time Commission. Why do they want to be full time? What will they be doing? The Ministry of Water is quite devolved. We have the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation. Go there and find out from the Chief Executive The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Officer what they are engaged in. They will tell you that this year they have only Kshs200 million earmarked for critical operations. So, what do they do for the rest of the days, from Monday to Friday? So, we should ask ourselves why the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, having contracted consultants on matters of recruitment and salaries, should want to be in an office where they are paid full salaries but staying from morning until evening with nothing to do or with very little to do? Therefore, that is an area I will vehemently oppose. The other issue is about ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to respond to the Statement sought by hon. Kareke Mbiuki, the Member for Maara. The specific information sought was:- (i) the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) contractual obligations with the PCEA Chogoria Hospital; The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: (ii) when the outstanding claim shall be honoured to avert the collapse of the hospital; and (iii)the NHIF general policy on statements of the approved claims to their contractual hospitals. My response is as follows:- view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The PCEA Chogoria Hospital, was accredited and declared a hospital through a view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Notice under the NHIF Act and initially allocated a rebate of Kshs2,100 under Contract “B”. However, subsequently, in January this year it was changed to Contract “C” after this hospital wrote a request which was approved by the NHIF Board of Management. view