Uhuru Kenyatta

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1081 to 1090 of 1516.

• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the CFS and debt payment are above the line. Those are statutory commitments of the Government of Kenya. Pensions are included in that. Those ones do not come before this House. We present and give a full account of what they are. What we are looking for is the expenditure for line Ministries through the Vote on Account and that is what requires parliamentary approval. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I precisely said is that what we are passing here is the Vote on Account. The CFS are commitments of the Kenyan Government which are captured in the Estimates. Parliament is informed what our debt is and what we need to pay. Those payments, with or without parliamentary approval, must and will be made. This has already been tabled before this House, for example, the 12 per cent is in the law. The CDF money, for example, comes directly above the line. Parliament does not approve that percentage because it is already approved by this House. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Member, whom I respect very much, in order to mislead the House that we have misrepresented the numbers? What he has referred to is the Gross Expenditure, which is inclusive of Appropriations- In-Aid (A-In-A) and yet what we are seeking approval for is net expenditure. If you look at the Schedule, you will see that the numbers are identical to those in the books. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with due respect to my brother, he is referring to the net approved expenditure for the financial year that is coming to an end. That is 2009/2010. What we are referring to are the Estimates for 2010/2011. Is the hon. Member in order to mislead the House that the figures are, once again, wrong? view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to oppose this amendment, primarily, for the reasons expounded by Mr. Mungatana. First and foremost, the key word that the hon. Member used is “oversight”. That Parliament’s primary responsibility is oversight. That is a responsibility that I fully respect. At the same time, the primary role of the Government is to execute its policies through the Budget. Parliament continues, and must maintain its oversight role. The Government expenditure proceeding does not in any way whatsoever, take away from this House, its oversight role. That continues. However, Government programmes have start dates and different ... view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as the Right Hon. Prime Minister has just pointed out, if we take, for example, the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC), they require that money in order to conduct and continue to do the business that they are supposed to do. Within this Budget, we have different priorities. For example, we had an agreement with teachers on their new salary increment and we had a formula which we had agreed on. There is also an increment of 40 per cent that is supposed to be paid this year as part of the general agreement that ... view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to oppose the amendment and plead with hon. Members that let us walk this path together. There will come a time when we will get those details. Maybe then, we would have arrived but we are not yet there. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: I beg to oppose. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank all the contributors. I want to assure my good friend that we have taken note of that and we will continue to do so. I think Mr. Ethuro knows that from experience! view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: So with those few remarks, I beg to move. view