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E. Grant Gibbons

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10 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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You will do better without them. [Laughter] BERMUDA’S NEW GOVERNMENT —THE FIRST 100 DAYS
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Speaker, and thank you. Mr. Speaker, my first question actually is . . . I think it is on page 1, the Premier refers to having “ successfully completed or significantly advanced twenty - one of the twenty -one 100-day pledges that we made to the people of Bermuda. ” Could the Honourable Member give an indication …
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Actually, it is a supplementary.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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If I may. The Honourable Member refers to the revamped Ministerial Code of Conduct. Could the Honourable Member speak to what were the additional disclosure requirements that Minis-ters now have to provide? Hon. E. David Burt: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I do believe at our last sitting, the Honourable Minister responsible for the Cabinet Office identified those items, …
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Actually, supplementary.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. Will the Ministerial Code of Conduct be made public? I am not aware if it has or has not at this point.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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A new question; thank you, Mr. Speaker.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. On page 3, the Honourable Member refers to the SCORE Report, or I should say a complementary report to the SCORE Report for public schools. Will this complementary report be released?
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Have the recommendations that have been made in the supplementary report been costed so far?
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, yes.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Can the Honourable Member speak to when the additional recommendations that have been made will be completed?
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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New question. Yes.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes. On page 7, the Honourable Premier speaks to a reference of the cyberattack on a global law firm with offices in Bermuda. Can the Honourable Member speak to the progress on the implementation of the Per-sonal Information Protection Act, which, as the Honourable Member knows, will require breaches of information on individuals to …
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary. Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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I think what we are trying to get a sense of from the Minister is, has a vendor been chosen by the department to do this installation? Is it the same vendor that has done the installation in some of the other schools? Thank you.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I figured sooner or later you would cat ch me out of the corner of your eye. Mr. Speaker, I would also like to join others in sending condolences to the family of the late Reginald Burrows. As Honourable Members have said, he was an extraordinary gentleman in many respects. He was a pleasure to serve …
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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And it was an important piece of legislation, the Private Members’ Bill, because it essentially led to the construction of the XL and the ACE buildings on the old Bermudiana site. Back in, I think it was 1996 or 1997, I was Minister of Finance at the time, exempt companies could not own Bermuda property. And we had a difficult …
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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A ticklish decision at the time; there were arguments on both sides. But it was Mr. Burrows who was chosen—the government was in favour, but it was Mr. Burrows who was chosen to take that Private Members’ Bill through the House, and as history will recall, there was absolutely no debate on it. It was done in about 20 seconds.
3 Nov 2017 House of Assembly
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And everybody agreed with it.