Speeches by Scott Pearman, MP

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question is one singular question. It relates to both clauses 2 and 3 which amend the dates in the two prior primary Acts from the 9 th of February to the 1st of January both in the year 2024. I did ask a question in debate. If the Premier answered the question, I apologise; I …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Honourable Premier please explain to this Honourable House why your Government’s Health Bill has now been delayed twice in the upper House?

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Honourable Premier, in the Health Bill, your Government has now dropped your proposed law to imprison Bermudian health care workers if they fail to provide the government with information. Given the Government’s U -turn, can the Honourable Premier explain why he voted to support imprisonment in the first place?

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Second supplementary.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Will the Premier’s Government be further amending the Health Care Bill to take into account the concerns of Bermudian health care workers about patient confidentiality? Hon. E. David Burt: Mr. Speaker, I am not going to speak before the Honourable Minister of Health who does this, but what I can speak to, Mr. Speaker, is the fact that patient confidentiality …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Supplementary.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you. To the Honourable Junior Minister, given that during the budget this Parliament approved a grant of Bermuda House of Assembly $500,000 to the Bermuda Tourism Authority, on what legal basis did this Government decide to change that approval by Parliament? [Pause]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Second supplemental.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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I do not know whom I will have the pleasure of hearing the answer from. [Laughter]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Given the decision was taken to change a Parliament -authorised $500,000 grant to the Bermuda Tourism Authority, who took the decision to change that? Thank you, Mr. Premier. Hon. E. David Burt: Mr. Speaker, I am just going to give clarity. Grants are not authorised by Parliament.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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My question was, Who took the decision? [Pause]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Sorry. I did not quite hear the answer. You are working to table a Bill in this particular session? Is that what the answer was?

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you. I am grateful. No supplementary.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And good afternoon to the listening public. I would just like to rise in support of my colleague MP Susan Jackson, the Shadow Minister, who spoke in favour of this Bill and in favour of the Minister’s presentation today on short -term financial relief. It is right and true that those most in need ar e …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the Honourable Minister. Honourable Minister, my first question relates to page 3 of the Bill, clause 3 at the top of page 3 under the heading “Short -term relief benefit.” And if you read down through that clause 3(2)(b), you see that either there is a maximum . . . sorry. I …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Minister, my next question arises at clause 4 of the Bill, still on page of the 3 of the Bill. And it is at clause 4(3) where it says, “ The Director shall, as soon as practicable after the end of the financial year, make a report to the Minister of his activities under this …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Chairman, would you prefer for me to go through all of the ones in this section?

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes. Fine So next question then, please, would be clause 5. And at clause 5(1)(a) it is what the Director may require an applicant to provide. You see clause 5(1)(a), “require an applicant or a recipient to provide him” (being the Director) “with such information and produce such documents as he may specify . . . .” The question I …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And we are through to clause 6; is that correct, Mr. Chairman?

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Okay. Then I have nothing further.