Speeches by Scott Pearman, MP

28 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you.

28 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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No questions from our side, Mr. Chairman. Just to say that in addition to what I said in the general debate, the Minister did make me aware of the two amendments to the Bill, or more specifically, amendments to the Explanatory Memorandum, and we understand why those amendments are being made and take no point on them. Thank you.

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman.

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Let me start where the Honourable Minister and Deputy Premier left off with thankyous. I would like to extend my similar thanks to all the folks at the Ministry of Home Affairs and the hard-working individual civil servants. This is a complicated Ministry. Home Affairs is often the Minister that gets bashed the most in public because some of these …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Which is fantastic because we unfortunately ran out of time entirely last year. But I think that shows that Planning has moved and it shows how much of a chunk that Planning took up in the relevant Ministry. Now it has moved over and we will deal with that on another day. One of the smallest ministries, budget wise, as …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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It is the smallest. I am grateful for the clarification. And what we see is that the costs are going up to $15.527 million from the 2022/23 actuals of $13.713 million. So, in the last two years we are seeing a circa increase of $1.8 million, give or take. So that is where this Ministry is trending. And Planning, as …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes, and he can—

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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—jump in. And indeed the answer to your question as well, Madam Chairman.

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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So going back now to the first of the six heads, Head 93, Ministry of Home Affairs Headquarters, page B -307. And we were just talking before that aside about Planning having moved. And what I wanted to come on to now is Consumer Affairs. Be-cause if we look at the General Summary box at the top of that page, …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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I welcome a point of clarification. Thank you.

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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It does. I am grateful for the point of clarification. And perhaps the Minister may want to just point out to the Legal Affairs team in advance of Wednesday’s debate that there is no line item for Consumer Affairs there in the Budget Book. So perhaps it has just gone astray. But I am thankful. And I am very happy …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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I am grateful for that clarification. So we have got the questions —

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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And he is back; he is back. So we have got the question on Professional Services and that marked increase in professional services over the last two years. The next item that the Minister covered when he was addressing us on the Headquarters and its general policy changes. He covered two that I would like to cover here. We could …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes, I will take it. Thank you. Hon. Walter H. Roban: Just on a minor point.

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. And as before, I am very happy to take the clarifications as and when they come. In respect of those persons, and I was about to actually come on to what the Minister has said, which is people who had not been involved in the process. That to my mind begs the question whether these are …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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I yield, yes.

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Let me start by apologising to either Senator Simmons or Senator Wilson, whoever took offence in my error. Hopefully, neither of them. Just sticking with this question or this topic, we had the Canine Advisory Committee established. I think what we would like to know or what would be helpful to know is, Where is the plan , …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Well, I would really like to know what the solutions are at a high level, at a 30,000 foot level. I mean, is it more dog wardens? Is it to require licensing for dangerous dogs again? Will the law re-vert? Will the law change somehow?

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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And then, more specifically, and just to link it to the Budget Book, there are a couple of specific questions that arise, and if I could ask, Madam Chairman, for you to go to page B -321, at the moment if we look at the box up top, Employee Numbers Full Time Equivalents, if we go down about 10 line …

26 Feb 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes; I am asking that specific question. Does that mean that we are only licensing 30 per cent of our dogs? And then there is another statistic right below that, which you will see, Madam Chairman, total inci-dents and complaints to which wardens responded to. Now, again this is maybe two, maybe four wardens, I don’t know. But we see …