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Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

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16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and good morning.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I would thank the M inister on his Ministerial Statement. Page 4 of 6 where he outlined a number of options relating to the proposed fee structure, or PATI charges concept is the title. And a number of those have options in them about how they are going to work, would potenti ally or may or could. To advance this …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you. Supplemental?
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Honourable Minister mentioned that the Information Commissioner will be involved with the consultation. Would the Honourable Minister be able to outline how wide or expansive this consultation will be? Will it be limited only to the Information Commissioner? Hon. Vance Campbell: It is my understanding that this is something the Information Commissioner has expressed …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Second question?
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Would the Honourable Minister clarify when the legislation comes forward that he is anticipating bringing it under the affirmative resolution instead of negative?
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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No further questions. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, again. My question relates to the Minister’s Statement on page 2 of 5 where he is talking about establishing the Bermuda Cybersecurity Incident Response Team. Would the Honourable Minister please provide some further detail? For example, where is this team going to be located within the various agencies; staffing and cost? Thank you.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Second question, please.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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The Honourable M inister mentioned the Parliamentary Counsel is currently drafting the updated legislation. My question is, When does the Honourable Minister anticipate bringing that legislation to the House? Hon. Michael A. Weeks: Mr. Deputy Speaker, thank you for that. As soon as possible. It is with the drafters as I said, so as soon as possible.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, sir. Next question. The Honourable Minister raised that the UK Office delivered a report and recommendations to the Premier and himself, which was reviewed with Her Excellency the Governor. He mentioned that some areas in that report are not current ly addressed in the Cybersecurity programme in Bermuda. Would the Honourable Minister please outline what those areas are and …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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One day. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I would like to be associated with the remarks from the Opposition Leader relating to St. David’s Islanders and native community pow -wow celebration of our ancestors. I think there are a lot of people in Bermuda who say the things that we should do, and then the organisers of that event have …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and to the listening audience and my col-leagues. I want to declare my interest as others have done and give recognition to a young lady, a young woman who is 24 years old and has two passions. One is assi sting children, special ed children, and animals. And what she has done, she is an …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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And when he came back yesterday, I was (I want to say) overwhelmed in terms of the number of people who came out to wish him well on his return. His sister came back with him. And it was just absolutely amazing when he came back yesterday Bermuda House of Assembly evening. And even for him to again just exude …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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And the last thing I want to say, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and it is difficult because when we mention some people it is almost as if you are leaving out others. But I am not doing that. I just want to make sure I do give belated birthday congratulations to Violet Charves , who is now 93. Her birthday was …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I think we have to start this contribution with noting how important personal information protection legislation is. The right to privacy and —first of all, I should say the right to privacy is vital. As it stands right now, we need to make sure that our information cannot be used by others, cannot be used …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I just want to use the opportunity to hopefully emphasise the impact [to] us as individuals. I always like to think of the fact that what we do here, whatever session we are in, has an impact on the general public and can hopefully help everyone understand how that applies. So today, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will use two or …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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And what has also happened recently is, even when it comes to the KYC [know your client] information for anti -money laundering and all the rest of it, the banks in my mind are abusing that process, and they are asking the things th at are not—
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Like they are totally irrelevant! And so, the unfortunate argument that arises is a Bermuda House of Assembly worker is asked for information that they have been told to gather. You say, No, it’s not relevant. And there is an extended discussion because sometimes you cannot even get a bank account opened without giving what they think is relevant, which …