Robert Pukose

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2561 to 2570 of 2869.

• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: On county allocation, rural electrification, Level 5 hospitals and youth polytechnics, those should be conditional grants to the county governments. That is the way I look at it. That is because if we give it in the form in which all of them have been lumped together, then what will happen is that counties will sit and look at what their priorities are. Their priorities will not be the way it is done unless the national Government gives that as a conditional grant to do rural electrification, give money to Level 5 hospitals and youth polytechnics. It is not going ... view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: The way the county government expenditure is - as one of my colleagues has put it - is that we expect them not to marginalize certain areas within their counties. There may be marginalization of certain constituencies because, maybe, they did not give the governor enough votes. If we marginalize certain areas, then we will not achieve what we want as a nation. view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we are also giving counties money to purchase drugs. There was an amendment which was being discussed at the Senate with regard to the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) being able to supply drugs to all the counties and we had people in certain areas opposing it. However, if we do not have standardization of all the drugs that we are giving in the country, then some counties will buy chalk while others will buy other things which do not exist. This will be setting a bad precedent. What the governors need to know is that they need ... view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: but it could be somebody else in 2017. When it is somebody else and you have made your people to take chalk as drugs, then it will be a very sad affair. view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: We made an allocation; conditional grant, to Level 5 hospitals. Those are formally provincial general hospitals. They include Kisii, Machakos and all the other former provincial hospitals. If we give the money not as a conditional grant to Level 5 hospitals, then what it means is that the money will be distributed equally among all the counties. What happens to the county that is hosting the Level 5 hospital? Are the other counties which are being served from that county willing to give their share to that Level 5 hospital to provide services? This is where the big challenge is. ... view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: how to utilize the funds that have been allocated. I hope that this time round, we will spend more of our energies to discuss on how we will spend the money that has been given to the counties so that we are able to absorb the money within the required time and deliver services that Kenyans yearn for. Many Kenyans voted for devolution because they wanted services to be closer to them. They need to see the benefits of devolution. Two years down the road, those benefits are not going the way many Kenyans had expected. It is just trickling ... view
• 3 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: I have spoken. view
• 3 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: I just wanted to ask: How do we end? view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this very important speech by His Excellency the President. Allow me first to send my condolences to those who lost their lives in Eastleigh yesterday. I wish quick recovery to those who are at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). I also want to take this opportunity to thank the neurosurgeons in KNH for successfully removing the bullet from baby Osinya’s head, this morning. view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: ( Applause ) view