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Walter H. Roban

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10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I am aghast at that answer, for one. Two, I am asking this House, Will the Minister make a c ommitment to let us know as soon as poss ible who is on the committee, because clearly a selection was made. And there is a committee to make the selection.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Would the Minister confirm that the only time that there has been an effort to not di sclose who is on the committee was last year, when the previous Minister made a Statement in this House? That is, I think the Minister should be able to confirm whether that is the only time, because there has been no other time …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am holding for the Honourable Member Mr. Jamahl Simmons —
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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—on these particular Orders.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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First, I would like to say that we are generally supportive of these measures. We on this side in the PLP remain supportive of the system with the ability to award appropriate concession pac kages to those who wi sh to invest in Bermuda in the tourism product. This was devised, as the Junior Mi nister said, this was devised …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My comments on this particular measure will be somewhat the same as made on the previous measure. We again support this Concession Order for the very reasons that we have already reiterated and that the Minister has reiterated in his brief, that is to promote the investment in our tourism product and, certainly as …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I must say, Mr. Speaker, we have heard some interesting things today in this motion to adjourn. It does appear, Mr. Speaker (and I will speak on a few things), that one of the prevailing the mes is how do we appropriately recognise our Bermudian cit izens? Howe do we appropriately reward their potential leadership and …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I will move on. We had an interesting discussion this morning concerning the Statement by the Honourable Minister on National Heroes, and also some other answers to [questions on] Statements. It was very puzzling b ecause the lack of answers on some key questions around the process of selection seemed to get the ire of some people as …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Fifty-eight seconds? Mr. Speaker, on the 31 st of March there was a Moody’s report about Bermuda that essentially made some changes to how Moody’s looked at Bermuda’s macro profile and it moved Bermuda’s macro profile. This was recorded in Global Credit Research, “Moody's Investors Service changed the Macro Profile for Berm uda to ‘ Moderate’ from ‘Moderate +’ , …
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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—of which I am sure someone else will—
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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—raise at the appropriate tim e.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Point o f order, Mr. Speaker. The Honourable Member is misleading the House. It is under the . . . I am sorry.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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It is under the Progressive Labour Party, actually, that a Bermudian was appoi nted the Commissioner for Education.
10 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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So we are not that excited. We are—
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Supplementary question to the Minister. Would the Minister at least agree, in light of what she said, that those care homes that are run by the Government are run well and are tak ing very good care of the senior population upon which they have responsibility for?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Second supplementary, Mr. Speaker.
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Would the Minister be able to tell us, in light of her [response] about promoting persons going into the business of senior care, can the Minister give us some indication as to how many new applications to establish seniors’ homes have been received by the Ministry over the past year?
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On the page 4 of the Honourable Minister’s Statement, Mr. Speaker, it states that “t he Gover nment is making good progress having conducted a preliminary risk assessment, which has been mapped to a program of cybersecurity -related activities. ” Is the Minister aware that there have already been cybers ecurity violations within the government system …