Silas Kipkoech Tiren

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• 1 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: areas where their interest is allocated. To address this, the Committee will propose amendments to ensure that famers’ interests in terms of markets are taken care of adequately, amongst regulation of sugar imports into the country and criteria to be met before the importation is done. The Committee noted that local industries have become insolvent due to the non-regulation of imports, which is something of concern and needs to be looked into. There is also need to provide a framework of quality, safety and health control measures related to sugar. This will ensure quality, standardisation, health standards and environmental standards ... view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: A Report of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, on its consideration of the Sugar Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 68, of 2019). view
• 24 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chair, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by − (b) inserting the following items in subparagraph (xxiv) immediately after item 133- 134. Tractors other than road tractors for semitrailers. view
• 24 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Agriculture, being an area which has not been looked into, we thought about making considerations that farmers need to mechanise. We thought that mechanisation is part of the things that are going to help agriculture become better. We thought that although we wanted all the other additional implements and parts to be included, the National Treasury seems to have refused to take the other ones. We feel that next time, something should be done to include the other. We think that if we help farmers by removing VAT for tractors, we will improve food security. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy ... view
• 24 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Exactly. view
• 17 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity. I rise to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government Question No.194/2021. (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain why the National Transport and Safety Authority has been lax in its role of educating and creating awareness to motorcycle riders on the highway code so as to reduce the high numbers of accidents that account for over 30 per cent of the patients in the emergency departments in hospitals? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide a status report on compliance and the programmes that have been recently rolled out to ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to say something on the Budget. First, I would like to thank the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Members for the good work that they have done. I also thank my Committee for the support that they gave us when we were making the Budget and looking at the issues that are there. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Let me talk about agriculture. My colleagues have said that we have a lot of challenges that need to be addressed. As everybody knows, agriculture is the backbone of this economy. It is an area that needs to be looked into. Despite the importance of the agriculture sector and its contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), economic growth, employment, foreign exchange and raw materials for the industrial sector, it is grossly underfunded to the tune of Kshs25.8 billion. Something needs to be done because agriculture is an area that should be looked into. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The sector already has numerous ongoing and stalled projects. Projects take too long to be completed because of low budget allocations and sequent budget cuts. A Member mentioned that we also have a lot of challenges in agriculture because of pending bills. I do not know what we are supposed to do. My colleague has said something. The debt ceiling can be removed to sort out some of these things. Agriculture is an area that we need to look into because of the pending bills. The State department has a lot of pending bills. For example, in the State Department ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We have some policy recommendations we made in the Committee. The sector already has numerous stalled and ongoing projects as I had said earlier. The National Treasury to provide additional funding to reduce the funding gap in the budget so that the State Department and policies 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