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• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, I beg to move: - THAT, Clause 6 of the Bill be amended in Subclause (2) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (g)- (h) Observance of the doctrine of separation of powers by ensuring that Parliament does not get involved in the management of public resources. Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, Clause 6(2), which seeks to provide prudent fiscal management, is incomplete without addressing the area of conflict of interest. Therefore, while it is appreciated that we need to move in the direction of the new Fiscal Management Bill, it is necessary that for ... view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, I rise to support the amendment to the amendment. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, as I had said previously, it is not the intention of the Executive not to work with Parliament. The only issue was to ensure that there is indeed separation of powers between the Executive and the National Assembly as enshrined in the Constitution. However, the amendment does refer to the Constitution itself and any written law. After consultation with the author of the Memorandum, His Excellency the President and, indeed, the Attorney-General, the Executive has no problem with the amendment to the amendment. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, I beg to move that the Committee doth report to the House its consideration of the Presidential Memorandum on the Fiscal Management and its approval thereof with amendments. view
• 19 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with Committee in the said Report. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the relevant Assistant Minister is here. He is the one who is well placed to answer that Question. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Delays in processing of retirement benefits are caused by many factors. Those factors include the retiree not completing the requisite pension forms on time, the parent Ministry or the Teachers Service Commission failing to prepare the pension claim documents or failing to attach all the relevant supporting documents to the Pensions Department. It takes an average of 38 days to process a fully documented claim at the Pensions Department. (b) The Ministry of Finance has procured a modern Pensions Management Information System (PMIS) whose installation is ongoing and is expected to ... view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, recently, the Permanent Secretary in the Treasury actually issued a Circular to all the Ministries requiring them to submit pension claims to the Pensions Department, at least, three months prior to the date of an officer’s retirement. The whole purpose of, this is to enable the Pensions Department to have view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that can ultimately be looked at, but I think the most important thing that we needed to do was to capture the data. That is why we are looking for that new system. Once all the data has been captured, it will then be easy to process payments even at a devolved level at the provincial headquarters. But, first, we need the system in place. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, it is in recognition of that problem that we are implementing the new system. Currently, we are processing the documents manually. We have only 150 officers dealing with over 190,000 pensioners. So, as you can appreciate, that is a very large number and, hence, the investment in a new system that will go a long way towards ensuring that we do not have to keep pensioners waiting around in Nairobi, instead of receiving their dues on time. view