Simon Lesirma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: I would say that the capacity can always be outsourced. The driving engine for this Ministry is the capable Minister and his staff. view
• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, they have already started doing some good work. I am aware that they are already doing some huge dams and they can outsource capacity. If you are doing dams, you get capacity from the Ministry and the parastatals in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and other organizations. view
• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: I want to congratulate the hon. Member who brought this Motion because we want to continuously push for affirmative action. I do not want to put too much emphasis on previous Governments because they were also run by people from ASAL areas. The top leadership of previous governments constituted people from ASAL areas. view
• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: We want to see this change come as soon as possible. We want to see the modifications in the next Supplementary Estimates. I am happy that the Minister for Finance is here to support this Motion. We want to see real change in the next Budget. view
• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the Ninth Parliament, parliamentarians from the Pastoralist Parliamentary Group together with the Ministry of State for Special Programmes then headed by Mr. Munyes worked very hard on the policy on arid lands. That policy has been ready for the last three years. We were able to look at the strategic plans and the budget that we came up with was for Kshs30 billion annually to be pumped into the ASAL areas for development. view
• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: It is a bit unfortunate that although the President, while opening this session of Parliament did mention that 24 policies will come to the House, I expect this particular view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Vote for the Ministry of Transport. view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: From the outset, I want to thank the Minister for the work he has been doing in putting the Ministry into operation in terms of the facility we require in this country. As we always complain about our roads in Kenya, we do not see the other factors that we suffer from in terms of safety of motor vehicles. We have had rules and regulations that govern the matatu industry. I think the Minister should now wake up to the reality that, at least, if we are no longer following the Michuki rules, let us follow the Mwakwere rules, if ... view
• 5 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. With regard to Question No.326, I came here ready to answer the Question but the hon. Member is not here. You have not made a ruling on it. view
• 4 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to begin by apologising for having not answered this Question on Thursday last week. I was called to my constituency rather urgently on food security and other security matters. view