Muthoni Esther Passaris

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I wanted to speak to the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill which has been concluded. I commend the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. If we want...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you for giving me this opportunity. The National Gender and Equality Commission was founded in 2011 – that is 13 years ago - just after the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, with the idea of driving the two-thirds gender rule...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like the Member to withdraw the statement, “misbehave like school children.” Our school children do not misbehave. This is too generalised and stereotyping. When some youth misbehave, we cannot brand all of them as having bad...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) On a point of order Hon. Deputy Speaker?

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the State of the Nation Address. It was one of the best State of the Nation addresses I have ever heard. It was real, humble and progressive. It showed the...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi County, ODM) Before I reply, I want to address some concerns regarding the SHIF and SHA that we have been discussing. I believe this will be amazing because the haves will be paying for the have-nots. However, when they say that outpatient care will also be...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We are saddened that we keep having fire incidents in Nairobi and we keep losing lives. A few months ago, a mother lost three of her children. Today, a father has died with three children, a mother has...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi County, ODM) Yes.

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply to the Motion on Comprehensive Reform of Education Bursary Schemes to ensure Free Basic Education in Kenya. I have listened to my colleagues. There are those who supported, and others opposed. For my life, I cannot...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Recently, my party leader, Raila Odinga, said that Members of Parliament should perform their roles of legislation, oversight and representation. Most of these funds should be put in areas that serve the people. Hon. Raphael Wanjala also said...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Ahsante sana, Mhe. Spika wa Muda. Ni kweli. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to Hon. Irene Mayaka's Environment Management and Coordination (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to amend the law on the issue of cultivation of the...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I know you called my Question when I was not here. I apologise. We have a delegation from China and I had asked a question to the delegation and I had to wait for the answer. It would have...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Hon. Speaker, you know we bring these Questions because we changed the Standing Orders for cabinet secretaries to come to the House. It will be such a shame that I am in the House, but I cannot ask a very important Question, as...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Hon. Speaker, I rise to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Education the following Question: Could the Cabinet Secretary–

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, through the Speaker. I recently took a young girl who had not gone to school because her parents had no money to buy uniforms. This was a public school in Nairobi County. The cost of mattresses, blankets and everything...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak. I send condolences to the family of Hon. Beatrice Nkatha Nyaga from my myself, family and Nairobi City County. It is, indeed, a sad moment when you hear that somebody you...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the debate on issues of financial mismanagement at Moi University. I believe we have a problem with remittances of all deductions in payrolls. National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) was literally...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First, as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Lands, I congratulate Hon. Oundo for moving the Land Control Bill, 2023. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise under Standing Order 35 to bring to your attention the fact that...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to the Community Health Workers Bill that has been brought by Hon. Martin Owino. First, I congratulate him for taking the bull by its horns and realising that CHPs provide that service, but...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Report of the Committee on Delegated Legislation on the inquiry into irregular and illegal grounds of tax exemption to a company under SOFA. I have looked at the Report...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Senate amendments to the Food and Feed Safety Control Coordination Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.21 of 2023) . We are what we eat. Are we eating to live or...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Motion on the consideration of the Senate Amendments to the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.38 of 2024) , that was brought by the Chairperson of the...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Motion on policy and funding for sugarcane farming in the country brought by Hon. Peter Nabulindo. 25th September 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 10 Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM)Hon. Temporary...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Since Independence, this country has been managing the agriculture sector through cooperatives with the aim of coordinating production, processing and exporting the produce. In the past, people used to send their children to school without problems because they made...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, aware that Article 43 (1) as read together with the Article 53 (1) (b) of the Constitution provides that every person has the right to education and enshrines the right of every...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) One more minute! It is being brought. Sorry, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for your indulgence. I apologise. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that Article 43 (1) as read together with Article 53 (1) (b) of the Constitution provides that every person...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Sorry. I just want to correct Hon. Kailemia who says one does not have to remove clothes to be considered ill.

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I commend Hon. Mishi Mboko for coming up with this Motion to discuss mental health and how we can put up facilities in all our health centres to deal with it....

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am talking about all these conditions that I have endured and had treatment because I was able to afford the treatment. I know that these conditions are not only rich man's diseases, but also for everybody. Anybody...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, you see many people nodding on the streets while walking nude. Right? They strip their clothes because of their mental condition. They have reached a point where they are on their own. They end up removing their clothes and feel...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the debate on the list of Cabinet Secretaries who were recently vetted. I commend the Committee, under your leadership and that of the Deputy Speaker, for the good work you have done. I...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill. I commend the Budget and Appropriation Committee for all their work. We have all been mentioning how we have had an unprecedented history happen in our country...

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Yes.

Hon. Esther Passaris (Nairobi City County, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. In the last Parliament, I was a member of the Departmental Committee on Health. Hon. Deputy Speaker, Hon. Gladys Boss, came to talk to us about the dangers of pesticides in our...