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The Hon. L. Craig Cannonier, JP, MP

The Hon. L. Craig Cannonier, JP, MP

2212
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321,050
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105
Sittings Active
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
593 words
Okay. What are we renting to the tune of that? Or is it shared amongst several things? What exactly does Parks rent out? Outside of the land, is this due to camping type of thing? Can we get a little more information there? Now, it may be that because if you go down to revenue, under page B -222, the …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
1,355 words
Head 81, Public Lands and Buildings on page B -227. Now, the Minister did not say a whole lot in general. I am just speaking to the mission statement here and policy procedures and the likes, our philosophy toward some of our buildings. We know that we have an excessive, well, 750 buil dBermuda House of Assembly ings, if not …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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27 words
Yes, I am. If you look at Works and Engineering, and you go to the mission statement where it talks about essential water and waste treatment services.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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997 words
Okay. I’m getting beat up here. So, under the mission statement where it talks about water services, and we may go into some detail as we go through the analysis here. If we look on page B -231 under General Services for Head 82, Works and Engineering, there is a whole lot going on here. And Works and Engineering is …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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13 words
The lim estone is all filtered out. Yes. [Laughter and i naudible interjections]
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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18 words
I can assure you, it is getting through, man. Some of it has got to be getting through.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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5 words
Yes, I’ll drink some. [Laughter]
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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12 words
Yes, I got that last toddy from down in your neighbourhood, man.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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1,242 words
So, I don’t know if the Mini ster may be considering . . . maybe we need to pass a new law, health and safety, that . . . we are digging the hole anyhow. Maybe we put in a septic tank that is lined and can be easily piped through a system that received it that can then be …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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47 words
Okay. Okay. Cool. All right. I would like to move us over to page C-5, under the Capital Account Estimates. That is page C -5, Ministry of Public Works . . . how much time do we have so I make sure I give him some time?
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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483 words
No, no, no. I appreciate the Minister does a thorough job, so I do like to hear what he has to say so . . . on page C -5, under Capital D evelopment. There wasn’t much said about unit 75003, Corporation of St. George’s Grant. We were well over that in the past and I know the last couple …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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1,064 words
I am going to skip down here. He mentioned about the housing grant. That’s new. Okay. I am going to go down to Public Lands and Buildings, 75356, Molecular Diagnostics Lab. I noticed that we had a TAF of $1.2 million, but if you add up what we actually did there, there is an alloc ation of $1.065 million and …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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5 words
But you ain’t got everybody.
24 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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21 words
Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was giving you an opportunity to go ahead and say what you had to say.
24 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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24 words
You know, I must confess. I have a terrible cough and it has been causing pro blems the last couple of days. [Inaudible interjection]
24 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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20 words
There you go. Yes. I want to thank Dr. De Silva for the cough drop. It did make a difference.
24 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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687 words
And I can attest that whenever he is in the House, whether for good or bad, he will make a difference. That is for sure. I think I want to kind of adjust the tack here. And I know that sometimes when I get on my feet, people are expecting a bit of controversy and a bit of to-and-fro because …
24 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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152 words
Next year. Maybe next year. It has been put off and put off. Maybe next year. That is not an unqualified statement. No, it is not. So, let me . . . let’s give you a little schooling then. All right? So, the Honourable Member . . . and I really appreciate the Honourable Member . . . Listen. I …
24 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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54 words
Oh yes, he speaks well. Li sten. I am giving this gentleman accolades. He spoke extremely well in the House. I will give him that. Yes, he spoke extremely well. But he might want to make sure that he does what he needs to do because that seat is up for grabs, Mr. Speaker.
24 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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14 words
Yes, aw. Just like he spoke about our leader. Aw. Aw. Yeah. [Inaudible interjections]