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Scott Pearman, MP

Scott Pearman, MP

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7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Second supplementary and final. Thank you, Honourable Minister. Notwit hstanding your response in relation to why, are you concerned by the lack of progress on this point to date?
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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18 words
Point of clarification if the Mini ster will take it, Mr. Acting Speaker. Will you accept one, Minister?
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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28 words
Just on the superusers, are those insured or uninsured, or do we not know? Hon. Kim N. Wilson: The majority of those superusers, Mr. Acting Speaker, are uninsured.
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Minister. Thank you,
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. And I thank the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Wayne Furbert, for holding this Bill in the Premier’s absence. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I just have two short points to follow on from the primary speaker from the Opposition Leader. The first is really, What is this Bill doing? And I would, with your leave, Mr. …
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member is mi sleading the House. We were talking about self - employed people, so there is no deduc tion by the employer.
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Again, the Honourable Minister is misleading the House. It is not a deduction. It is an exclusion. And you are amending an exclusion. 1816 7 October 2022 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Minister. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Mr. Speaker, I am not going to keep on going over this again. But there is a difference between …
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Minister is mi sleading the House. The Honourable Minister said, This is not new relief. Not me.
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And my thanks to the Honourable Minister for the Cabinet Office, Wayne Furbert, for presenting this Bill in the absence of the Premier. Mr. Speaker, there is t he old adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And this Bill, or indeed the original Bill, the original amendment which occurred back in …
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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I’m sorry. I will clarify. The Premier in his opening remarks said that the code 4241 was a new code. So, if it is a new code and we are just getting it in now, presumably there are no applications yet because it is a new code. Hon. E. David Burt: Is he talking about the bakers?
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Yes. The b akers. Hon. E. David Burt: So, there would not be any applications.
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Right. That is the point that I am asking the Premier. So, zero. There are none as of yet approved. Hon. E. David Burt: I mean, Mr. Chairman, we have not put this into place. It has to go through here. It has to go to another place. It has to go to be commenced. Then, upon that, that would …
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, let me start by recognising that the Minister kindly arranged for the Opposition to meet with certain civil servants on Wednesday afternoon of this week so that we could see and discuss the Bill. And I would like to positively thank the Director of the Department of Energy , and Mr. Dill, the c …
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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—that they will consult . . .
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Th ank you, Mr. Speaker. With the greatest of respect to the Honourable Minister . . . [Inaudible interjection]
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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And I will wait for the chatter to die down.
7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, with the greatest respect to the Honourable Minister, I am not imputing his motive. I am not asking what his motive was —if he did or did not consult. What I am stating to this Hon-ourable House is that we, the Opposition, including myself, have been expressly told by industry that there was not consultation, and I am …