Speeches by David A. Burch

7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker and Honourable Members of this House, I introduced the Bill entitled the West End Development Corporation Amendment Act 2022. This Bill seeks to amend the West End Development Corporation Act 1982 for the purpose of i ncreasing the time within which the West End Development Corporation [WEDCO] is required to send its annual statement of accounts to the …

7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly

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I never mentioned Bermuda Land Development Company in my presentation, and I presume that he is talking about what I said in relation to the Bermuda Economic Develo pment Corporation [BEDC]. And what I said was that the wording in this amendment mirrors what is in the BEDC re port. 1858 7 October 2022 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of …

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So, with that, Mr. Speaker, I move that the Bill be committed.

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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Mr. Chairman, I would like to move all clauses 1 through 4.

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Mr. Chairman, as pr eviously stated, this Bill seeks to amend the West End Development Corporation Act 1982 [the principal Act] with respect to the time within which the West End Development Corporation is to send a statement of its accounts to the Minister and to the Auditor, and to make its annual comprehensive operational report to the Minister. Clause …

7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Chairman, I move that clauses 1 through 4 be approved.

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Mr. Chairman, I move that the preamble be approved.

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Mr. Chairman, I move that the Bill be reported to the House as printed.

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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I move that Standing Order 21 be suspended to enable me to move that the Bill entitled the West End Development Corporation Amendment Act 2022 be now read the third time by its title only.

7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly

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I move that the Bill be now read the third time by its title only and passed.

7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly

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I wonder if you would indulge me for a few minutes as I read from a doc ument. It will become clearer as I proceed, why I am doing this.

7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. D eputy Speaker. This is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the Royal Gazette called 1“Damning report must wake up our legislature.” And one of the par agraph says, “In short: her report is an indictment of our present system of governance and its failures — another in a long line of reports from her …

7 Oct 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Deputy Speaker, 131 accounts. The Auditor General, no matter who it is, is never going to be able to clear those 131 accounts on the current trajectory, no matter what any Minister of F inance does without a nuclear option. Mr. Deputy Speaker, this Government is now, as then, as they probably will say too, in favour of helping …

30 Sep 2022 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Mr. Speaker.

30 Sep 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to provide a further update on the Tynes Bay Waste -to-Energy Facility . Honourable Members may recall in February of this year, the then Acting Minister of Public Works advised this House on the $150 mi llion Capital Programme for the refurbishment of the Waste-to-Energy Facility and the commencement of said programme. Though the Ministry …

30 Sep 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, I am i ntroducing the following Bi ll for its first reading so that it may be placed on the Order Paper for the next day of meeting: West End Development Corporation Amendment Act 2022.

30 Sep 2022 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker.

30 Sep 2022 House of Assembly

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I did not plan to speak on this, but we have headed down a road that suggests that this is a unique situation. It also suggests that some of those on the other side never served in government or never experienced, particularly qua ngos, being late wi th their audits. There is a quango today, Mr. Speaker, that was years …

30 Sep 2022 House of Assembly

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—everybody else in the country can do math. And so, Mr. Speaker, it is a source of significant frustration because the emplo yees and those involved in those entities, go the extra mile to get an audit, are impeded in that process in terms of meeting the deadline, and they are publicly criticised because you got all these entities that …

30 Sep 2022 House of Assembly

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Pardon? [ Inaudible in terjection]