National Assembly · Afternoon Sitting

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table:

The Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, Hon. Kimani.

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table: Report of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning on its consideration of the Equalisation Fund Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.47 of 2022) .

Next Order. There is a microphone right next to you.

Hon. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 33 (1) , I seek leave for the adjournment of the House for purposes of discussing a definite matter of urgent national importance regarding the ongoing demolitions and evictions in Athi River, Machakos County. Hon. Speaker, on Friday, 13th October 2023, residents of Athi River woke up to extensive demolitions of their houses by the Govern…

Do you have the numbers to support?

Members!

[(Loud consultations)]

You definitely have the support of the House. You may take your seats, Hon. Members. I have consulted with the Mover of the Motion and the Clerk-at-the-Table, and I will allocate time on Thursday at 5:00 p.m. to debate this Motion.

[(Laughter)]

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 43 (1) , I rise to make a general Statement on the exclusion of vulnerable children and orphans in homecare centres and orphanages from the recent mass registration of new beneficiaries of the Inua Jamii Cash Transfer Programme. Hon. Speaker, the State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizens Affairs implements the Inua…

alternatives to support the vulnerable children in private-owned care centres before embarking on any policy reforms overhauling children's care systems in the country. This will ensure that no vulnerable child is unjustly disadvantaged and their well-being jeopardized. As a matter of fact, most of those care centres that are hosting the children are supported by well-wishers, including Members of…

Thank you, Hon. Mohamed. Where is Hon. Karemba? Is he the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Social Protection? Hon. Alice Ng'ang'a! Is she in the House? I direct the Committee to get seized of the matter and report back to the House in two weeks. Thank you. Hon. Members, before we go to the next Order, allow me to acknowledge and recognise the delegation from the Parliament of Botswana…

Hon. Members, I wish to introduce to you a delegation of staff from the Parliament of Botswana. The delegation comprises the following:

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: AWARE THAT the National Dialogue Committee was established by Parliament through a Resolution passed by the National Assembly and Senate on 16th August 2023 and 29th August 2023, respectively; FURTHER AWARE that the Resolution outlines the mandate of the Committee, which includes to facilitate dialogue, consensus-building and recommend appropriate…

ACKNOWLEDGING THAT since its establishment, the Committee has made tremendous progress in exercise of its mandate and has achieved the following milestones: Formulated and adopted the framework agreement; framed and adopted the statement of issues; unbundled the issues and agreed on prioritisation of issues; harmonised the unbundled issues; conducted public participation and stakeholder engagement…

here, such as Hon. Caroli Omondi, who took his time to not only send memoranda, but also to appear before the Committee to give his submissions. Hon. Pukose, the Member for Tiaty and many others also appeared on various issues. We do not want to come up with a report that will not consider all those issues. Therefore, we seek the concurrence of the House for an extension of time. The Committee ma…

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to second this Motion. In seeking this short extension to the National Dialogue Committee’s term, we are simply exercising abundance of caution as rightly put by Hon. Ichung’wah. As a matter of fact, we may not actually need those 30 days. Since we are aware that the Senate is going on recess on 19th of October 2023, it would be advisable that we take this precautio…

Therefore, I can say with a lot of confidence that this Committee has done extremely well so far, and Kenyans should not lose hope. I have seen the media trying to run with the narrative that the Committee is giving preferential treatment to issues that do not concern Kenyans. If you look at the issues which are on the table, all have to do with the people. They are neither Azimio nor Kenya Kwanza…

Order, Hon. Members. Order, Hon. Members in the walkway. Take your seats.

[(Question proposed)]

Do you really need to debate this Hon. Members?

Okay, I give you two minutes Hon. Member.

Thank you, Hon Speaker. As much as I agree with…

Only comment on whether…

Hon Speaker, when this House mandated the same Committee that they go do this job, we expected them to tell us and provide a clear progress report to this House to say that we have done a, b, c, d.

You are out of order. There was no such provision in the Motion that was tabled here. So, you are clearly out of order. Take your seat.

Hon. Members what is before the House is very simple. Do you extend the time by 30 days or you do not? Not the merits or demerits of what the Committee is doing. Hon. Members, allow me now to put the Question. We now go back to Order No.8. Clerk, read it out.

[(Question put and agreed to)]