18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the basis is that while tabling the Supplementary Estimates for 2011/2012, hon. Members sought to know the basis for presenting the Supplementary Estimates. Hon. Members will recall that in the year 2011, this House passed the Appropriations Bill, 2011, which was later enacted into law. The Government has since August, 2011 been implementing the Budget on the basis of the Appropriation Act, 2011. Following the challenges---
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17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to second since this has been agreed upon by the Committee.
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17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Chairman, Sir, I beg to second because there is need to protect the National Social Security Fund.
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17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Report.
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17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The Kenya Deposit Insurance Bill (Bill No.55 of 2011) be now read the Third Time.
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17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to take this brief moment to thank the Members of the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and the staff members of the Ministry of Finance for the job they did in agreeing with all the amendments. As you have seen, they were quite a number of them. This is the new spirit that we would like to see in terms of the co-operation between the Executive and the Legislature. You can see that we have done a wonderful job.
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17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
I would also like to thank the hon. Members of this august House for the support they have given to this Bill. Our insurance is now up to date.
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17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will first of all deal with the latter assertion by Mr. Ethuro that on the Equalization Fund Bill, the date has not been released and there is impunity. I beg to inform the House that that position has been rectified and in this year’s Budget we have allocated double funding for the Equalization Fund. That is Kshs3 billion each. So, it will be a total of Kshs6.7 billion to cover for the year that was missed out. So, that has been rectified. That shows that this Executive is ready to comply with all the provisions ...
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17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly:
The other point that I would like to bring up is that we must use the rules of interpretation and they say that we must interpret the law so that we give effect to it. This was a non-foreseen factor that the President would bring back the Bill - he will not assent to it - to this House so that we can look at his proposed amendments. This was not foreseen. I would call this what the lawyers say “an act of God.” It was inevitable and could not have been foreseen. Therefore, we must interpret our rules. We ...
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