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Walton Brown

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24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I have three questions, Mr. Speaker.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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In that same paragraph, the Honourable Premier, in referring to the Schengen agreement —
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Third paragraph of the third page.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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The last two sentences.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Premier says, “This agreement relating to BOT Citizens depends upon UK membership to the EU.” As someone who was involved in the lobbying to secure visa- free access to Schengen, I actually do not recall that it was contingent on the UK being a member of the EU. I am just wondering if the Premier will undertake to …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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My third question.
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Given that the British exit, UK exit, from the EU wi ll have profound implications for all of the conventions approved by the EU that have Bermuda House of Assembly been applied to Bermuda, as well as the role of the European Court of Justice, will the Government agree to commit itself to fully reviewing whether or not —or what …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just have a few words I would like to express in support of this legislation, this Bill, Mr. Speaker. First of all, let me say that I fully understand the need for the Government to have a far greater degree of flexibility in dealing with civil aviation. I know that in a very competitive marketplace …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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I am consistent, but I am not going to go into that for our purposes today because it is a matter of record and I am not going to address that in any su bstantive manner at all. I have just two questions for the Honourable Minister. At some point a few years ago Government House raised concerns about the …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am glad I was able to catch— [Crosstalk] REFERENDUM ON SAME -SEX MARRIAGE
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I am glad I was able to catch your eye. Mr. Speaker, I would like to speak about referendum. Yesterday, there were two very important referenda which were held. One, of course, in Bermuda. The other in the land of our rulers, the United Kingdom. Let me deal first with the referendum in Bermuda. We had a referendum …
24 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Now, let me segue to the “leave” vote, the leave versus the stay vote, the remain vote, in UK. Last night I began to watch it and I realised early, early on that all the pundits were wrong, that the polls were wrong, t hat the vote to leave was gaining momentum, and, as we now know, Mr. Speaker, it …
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good morning, colleagues. Mr. Speaker, in listening to the Honourable Minister speak about the process of reform and reorganisation, he highlighted five different areas of pr ogress and reorganisation. It struck me that we seem to be re- examining and re- examining. So I am just wondering when the Government will make an actual commitment …
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary. Will the Minister not agree that we seem to be increasing bureaucratisation at the Ministry rather than actually decreasing it and that that may well be an inhibitor to actually making the kind of positive change that we need?
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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So, just to clarify for the Honourable Minister —
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Will the Minister therefore act decisively to reduce bureaucr atisation? Hon. R. Wayne Scott: Mr. Speaker, it is yes! That is exactly what I said that we need to do. I just . . . I am at a bit of a loss, Mr. Speaker.
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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My second question, Mr. Speaker (which is a carryover from the first question), is, We know that when principals have autonomy to run the schools, schools tend to run better and student performance increases because of the much more simpl ified approach. Will the Minister make a commitment to ensure that principals are duly authorised to properly run the schools …
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you , Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker , I did not intend to speak on this very simple and straightforward matter until I heard the Attorney General explain the process by which it is approved. So we have an entirely legitimate measure before us today that will be approved, yet we once again have to have this approved by …
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let me first of all congratulate the Gover nment for taking this initiative. I do not want to antic ipate a debate th at we are going to have in due course regarding civil unions, so I will not speak about civil unions. But I do congratulate the Government for taking the initiative to allow for …
17 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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So I will not speak to that .