6 Jul 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Chair. I support, especially in line with Article 94 of the Constitution. The kind of laws we make here are broad and it is necessary for the cabinet secretary to make more meticulous Regulations to effect the law that we are making.
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6 Jul 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I rise to oppose because as we make law, it is good for us to mind the semantics. This is because we may have a university offering a course in this name and another one offering exactly the same course in a different name with different units. The import of this is for us to make laws which are a bit flexible in this kind of a sector or discipline other than being direct and meticulous in terms of wording.
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6 Jul 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I think there is a problem because this certificate will be used to give priority to people who have donated blood before. As you know, the people who donate blood do not actually need it, but the people who are not capable of donating blood are the ones who need to be donated to. Therefore, it is discriminatory especially to recipients of these products because they may not have a chance or the ability to give blood.
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29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice on this matter because we are making great sacrifices to come to the Evening Sitting. It is not tidy for the leadership of the two Committees to be absent at this time. I rise on a point to order to request you to establish where the breakdown is so that we can avert this in future, especially the aspect of communication between the HBC and the relevant Movers. More importantly is the role of the Whip, who should have known the business for this evening so that he can ...
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29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to contribute to this Report. At the outset, the recommendations of the Committee have fallen short of the real issues that are bedeviling the collection of revenue in our country.
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29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
When the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, read the Budget in this House, it was around Kshs3.6 trillion at a backdrop of collection or projection of revenue of just around Kshs2 trillion. This has been perpetual because every time we read a Budget, it is usually with a deficit of over a third in so far as the expenditure and revenues are concerned. This is an incomprehensible lack of fiscal prudence and a total departure from the reality in terms of our country and economy.
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29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
The recommendations by the Committee are just about wish-washing. We should go deep into the real issues that increase revenue collection in this country. As you know, this is the ambit of the Government and especially through KRA to collect revenues to fund public expenditure. Those monies come from somewhere. For many years, our KRA has always dug deeper to the same taxpayers without bothering, especially the Treasury in the fiscal side, on how to create more wealth for our country so that KRA can have a bigger base on where to collect taxes. There is no way you can ...
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29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, figuratively speaking, we have to widen the bracket where we collect those revenues so that we do not overburden a few Kenyans. Mr. Deputy Speaker... 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.
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29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. Now it is not a Mr. but a Madam Speaker. Our economy currently is dominated by what I would call extracting sectors. Those are sectors where we deal with commodities and production that has got decreasing returns. I say so because our economy is predominantly an agricultural economy and in an agricultural economy or a commodity economy, it costs you more to produce extra. I feel that as a country, for us to increase the revenues, we have to look at the enterprise that has got increasing returns especially where we blend production and ...
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29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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