Speeches by Dr. Douglas De Couto, JP, MP

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you, Madam President. The Minister stated that the criteria were included. But of course, you could interpret that as saying that the actual scores that went along . . . the resulting scores that went along with each criterion may not have been included. So, I would like to confirm if the detailed scores for each of the criterion …

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you, Madam President. So to clarify, would it be correct to say that the answer to the question of, Were the detailed results according to each criterion provided to the schools and teachers?, the answer to that would be no? The President: In the report. Sen. the Hon. Owen Darrell: The answers will be in the report, which will …

29 May 2024 Senate

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Sorry. Madam President, my question was not about the report. Things like this — Sen. the Hon. Owen Darrell: He is on question number six now, Madam President. The President: Senator De Couto, the Minister’s response is that the answer will be in the report.

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you, Madam President. The President: Senators, that ends the question period. We will now continue. Oh, I beg your pardon. We will move on. There are questions that were put toward Senator Arianna Hodgson, the Junior Minister of Health. And they were put by Senator Tucker, Opposi-tion Leader i n the Senate. QUESTION: PROGRESS ON IMPROVING NATIONAL HEALTH ACCOUNTS …

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you, Madam President. The question is, Is the Health Council receiving the data from the hospital with the requisite granularity and detail to compile the reports? I know that since the block grant was — The President: Senator De Couto, I am not sure that question is relevant to the questions that have been put to the Junior Minister.

29 May 2024 Senate

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Oh, thank you, Madam President. The question is, Is that a contribution to the delays in the reports? Madam President, that was my an-gle. Thank you, Madam President.

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you very much, Madam President, and thank you to the Senator for the presentation. I was thankful also for the analogy that she used, because I think up until recently (or maybe I am too old to be saying “recently”) people would have thought of computer crime as victimless. You know, the original version of this Bill was around …

29 May 2024 Senate

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Madam President, may I ask a supplementary question to my original question? The President: You certainly may. Senator De Couto, you have a supplementary question? Please ask it now.

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you, Madam President. I am grateful to the Senator for the explanation of national security examples. Is that specified by law or regulation, or written down anywhere that could be relied upon? Or is that just going to be decided in the heat of the moment? Thank you. [Pause]

29 May 2024 Senate

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Yes, Madam President. I would second that motion. Thank you. The President: We will go into Committee and . . . [Crosstalk] The President: We need to vote on this. There have been two objections to the third reading. So we would need to take a vote on it. There-fore . . . [Pause] The President: Senators, we are entertaining …

29 May 2024 Senate

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Yes, Madam President. I object to the Bill passing. The President: You are objecting to its being passed?

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you. The President: Are there any other Senators who ob-ject? Senator . . . it will be five and five again. [Laughter] The President: We have to vote on the passage of the Bill. This does not happen often. The Assistant Clerk: We have to do it, though. The President: We have to do it. Senators, we would take …

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you, Madam President. My question would be, How might this affect the collection of data regarding causes of death? Thank you, Madam President. The President: Senator De Couto, would you repeat the question, please?

29 May 2024 Senate

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Sure. My question is, Does the Government have an understanding or estimate of how this might affect the collection of data regarding causes of death? I thought that was important for managing health outcomes. Thank you, Madam President. [Crosstalk] The President: Senator Tucker, they want you to repeat the questions. Sen. Robin Tucker: All of the questions? The President: Just …

29 May 2024 Senate

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Thank you, Madam President. It has been a highly, highly active weekend — [Laughter]

29 May 2024 Senate

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I am really going to be following up on comments already made. But I do feel they deserve emphasis. And this is the section where we often call names. And it does not mean that there are not many, many other things that could be emphasised or discussed. S o, I will just call out some of the things that …

29 May 2024 Senate

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I cannot say I was around for the whole parade, but I understand it was a lengthy cultural experience. And it went well into the late afternoon, which I think was a great acknowledgement of the importance of this weekend. This year, Madam President, is the 50 th anniversary of the National Museum of Bermuda. And I just want to …

29 May 2024 Senate

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1,747 words

And I would like to highlight next week as also part of the 175 th anniversary of the Golden Rule . The museum will be hosting an exhibition with artists from the Azores. And I am actually quite upset because I will be off Island and I will miss it. But I urge everybody to go up there and check …

21 Mar 2024 Senate

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359 words

Yes. Thank you, Madam Chairman. I actually had some of the same questions as my colleague. But if I flip over to page B -156 under Professional Services, under Subjective Analysis, Professional Services we are budgeting $2.6 million, or $806,000 less than last year’s budget, as well as less than the . . . last year actually came in pretty …

21 Mar 2024 Senate

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Yes. Thank you, Madam Chairman. I wanted to actually follow up on Senator Wight’s question. And on page B -174 . . . and maybe I will just put some numbers on it to make it really spe-cific. You know, I am looking at the hospital subsidy. And last year it was budgeted or forecast for 249[,086] claims. Revised came …