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Walton Brown

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12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of clarification. Dr. the Hon. E. Grant Gibbons: Yes.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Just a point of clarification, Mr . Speaker.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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That this is what the Minister is saying in the Bill, that the first purpose relates to international business and tourism marketing. It says not hing about the people, so just a point of clarification.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Madam Chairman, it is just very good to see the Minister make this amendment to en-sure that affordability is a key aspect of the legislation. Thank you.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Madam Chairman, I am troubled by [clause] 15(2). As the Minister said, this Bill has had an extensive consultation process, there has been a lot of input, a lot of thinking about the wording of this legislation. S o I do not understand how you can have this [clause] 15(2) which says if there is a difference of opinion or …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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My apolog ies, Madam Chairman, I was distracted by my Whip who really should know better. [Laughter]
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I just have a question regarding clause 28.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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The rationale that the Minister just advanced in clause 28 and the 30- year licence is that it has to do with the excessive or significant capital investment. But the legislation provides for BELCO to be the only licensee. They have had the licence for 60, 65 years. So what capital investment are we tal king about? We are not …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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So given that the Honourable Minister recognises that the capital investment would not be anywhere near the investment required for a ltogether new entity, can the Minister assure this House that given his Ministerial responsibility under this Act, he will direct the RA to issue a licence for a period of time significant ly less than 30 years?
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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My apologies. Dr. the Hon. E. Grant Gibbons: Well as a sharehol der perhaps you would be aware of that, I am not .
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I am just troubled by clause 36(a). One of the most compelling dimensions of this legislation is that it will provide a revenue stream for those entities that are actually energy providers. And here we have the principles set out for how the rates are to be deter-mined. And the two principles are identified here in …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Right. But it does not take into account any of the unexpected costs that could arise. All I am asking is if you would consider allowing for the RA, with all its technical expertise, to be free of these constraints to properly assess what the feed- in tariff could be because this is will have a determining impact on the …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let me first of all declare that I have one passport, only one passport. I have no intention of getting any other passport and I would actually r enounce my British citizenship, Mr. Speaker, if it would not render me stateless —the very reason why I have not renounced it. Mr. Speaker — [Inaudible interjection]
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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That is not sufficient. I would r enounce my British citizenship tomorrow if it would not render me stat eless. Mr. Speaker, a week ago this Government proposed some of the most dramatic immigration legislation ever in this country —ever. I took to social m edia, Mr. Speaker —Facebook —to make a few comments about the proposed legislation. I posed …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, so we have made repeated, sincere efforts to have collaboration b ecause if we have one party doing exactly what it wis hes, when the other party gets in it is going to do exac tly as it wishes. What kind of way is that to govern and have laws and policies around something as sensitive as the …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Almost seven minutes, great. I will not be much longer. You know, it just so happens, Mr. Speaker, that I received a very depressing e- mail at 9:03 tonight from a young lady, a single mother. I spent a lot of time with her last year trying to help her to get work. She was abused in the workplace, blacklisted, …
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker — Hon. Trevor G. Moniz: —the next day he—
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker — Hon. Trevor G. Moniz: —he drew back from that.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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I have a point of order.
12 Feb 2016 House of Assembly
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My point of order is I do not need forgiveness. Hon. Trevor G. Moniz: That is not a point of order.