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The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

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20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Once again, the Honourable Mi nister of Finance is misleading the Ho use, because he will know, and I am sure that the Honourable Former Minister of Tourism behind him will correct him, that up until 2007, there was a reversal of the trend and the numbers were going up. They went down after the global, the Great Recession.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speak er.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Once again, the Honourable Mi nister of Finance is misleading the House. There were increases in air arrivals as well during that period up until 2007.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, the Honourable Mi nister of Finance cannot say whet her or not business visitors went up or down because those numbers were not tracked individually at that time. We are tal king about air arrivals. He can only speak to the facts of which he can know. [Inaudible interjection] Hon. E. T. (Bob) Richards: That period of time …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Minister of F inance is once again misleading the House. He is speaking about the Economic Development Commi ttee response for investments at the Hamilton Princess when he knows full well that those investments were taking place prior to the One Bermuda Alliance coming into office. [Inaudible interjection] 1794 20 May 2016 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I do not have a prompt. But I would assume that we are — The Clerk: You are moving the Motion, notice of which was given . . . You move the following motion, notice of which was given on the 16 th of December 2015. And then you can read it as follows. …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, I was looking for the correct opening. Mr. Speaker, I move the following Motion, n otice of which was given on the 16th of December 2015: THAT THIS HONOURABLE HOUSE take note of the Minister of Finance Response to the R eport of the Parliamentary Standing Commi ttee on the Public Accounts on the Special Report of the …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am reporting this matter to the House in my capacity as the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee [PAC]. And, of course, the Public Accounts Committee issued their report on this particular issue in June of 2014, so it was quite some time ago, almost two years ago. Our accountability cycle …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I just want to make sure because I know that I might get, you know, chastised later on down the road. The Sp eaker: That is fine, Honourable Member.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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So I am just going to make it clear. Mr. Speaker, in June 2014, the Public A ccounts Committee issued the report to the Auditor General, the Auditor General’s Report on the Misuse of Public Funds. And this report centred around the question of government ministers being named in a lawsuit that was being paid for by the Government of …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Constituency 5, constituency 5. So in that, the Public Accounts Committee, through our exhaustive research, issued a number of findings. And I want to just highlight a few of those findings for the Members here, because I think that it is important. And I will go to . . . we had a number of findings for A, for B, …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So, in regard to, we issued a number of findings that just basically reviewed the facts of the case. And the facts are that there was a lawsuit that was authorised by the Cabinet. The lawsuit at some point in time ended up, because it was a defamation la wsuit, could not be in …
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. Hon. E. T. (Bob) Richards: They did their job.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. S peaker.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Minister is partly unintentionally misleading the House. I did not say that I did not want anything to be done; I just said I did not think it ros e to the level of special report, [but] that we could possibly just disclose the financial stat ements and make sure those things were correct.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order. Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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We have audits inside of gover nment.
20 May 2016 House of Assembly
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And if there was any question as to missing money, I am certain that that would have been brought up by the Auditor General and reported to the authorities. That was never had, and as shown by the Public Accounts Committee, the Auditor General has come and people have asked if there have been any criminal offences and the Auditor …