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E. Grant Gibbons

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6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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So, under Part 3 Po wers, 18A, it says, “The powers provided in Part 3, Chapter 3 may be exercised by the competent a uthority to enable it to establish whether,” and then it says, “regulated a non- financial business . . .” I think it should read “whether a regulated” —get rid of the “a” after regulated so, “whether …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Mr. Chairman, a couple of us are going to speak on some of these issues. But I would like to start with the Triathlon supplementary of $2.885 mi llion. The Honourable Member set out some of the issues here. I think just to put it in context, and for the benefit of those in the …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Actually, Mr. Chairman.
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It is all right. Sorry, I know I am right off the port side here. I guess another two points, and that is bas ically that my honourable colleague, Pat GordonPamplin, I think to some degree, made this case as well. But the fact of the matter is, if we actually wait until the end of this budget year, which …
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Mr. Chairman, yes, thank you. So, the Minister has come here today and he cannot even speak to the amount of money which has been spent in those particular categories? I think that is quite extraordinary.
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Chairman.
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The Honourable Member is misleading the House. Not only have we no t gotten to this point but his facts are completely incorrect.
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Yes, Mr. Chairman.
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The $1.4 million that has already been spent on the World Triathlon Series seems like an extraordinary amount, given the fact that it is not until nex t April, and that there are going to be all kinds of charges that are going to be set up. So I just find that a very hard number to believe. It clearly …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. I have you looking my way now.
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Yes. The first comment I want to make, Mr. Chairman, is that I hope everybod y notices the fact that there was some $725,000 that was spent on overtime. So much for the theory that the America’s Cup did not help blue collar workers; that is an extraordinary contribution to blue collar — [Inaudible interjections]
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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I just wanted to make that point. I worked out, if you look at about 70 emplo yees . . . that works out to over $10,000 extra apiece. But I will let the Minister tell me whether I am on the money or not. Mr. Chairman, what is not entirely clear here is what time period we are looking …
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. Mr. Chairman, I do not have to say this, but I have to say that this was money well spent. It contri buted significantly to the smooth running of the event, getting people to go by water. And I think I have to say that my hat is certainly off to the ferry and tug …
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I was just saying there was a very detailed MOU which dealt with the rel ationship between the ACBDA a nd Marine and Ports, which basically dealt with expenditure.
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman. I think it would be useful to just provide a little bit of context here, because I think people listening probably do not have any sense of what this is. But way back in December of 2014 we explained very clearly that in order to be taken seriously we needed to be able to put …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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The point of order is that the Honourable Member is misleading the House. I never spoke to the Financial Secretary about this particular amount. He certainly never gave any advice to me as to at least $18 million, and when I discussed it with the Minister of Finance at the time he was quite comfortable with $15 million.
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Mr. Chairman, the Honourable Member was not there during those discussions. He certainly does not know. The Financial Secretary would have had no better advice than those of us who were more closely involved with it, which were the ACBDA and myself who were very involved with the sponsorship. He could not have given advice that it should have been …
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Thank you. I am not sure why I am doing all these, but the fact of the matter is, I am on my feet. Thank you. I appreciate the Minister’s co mments on this one. I do not think there is a dispute on Bermuda House of Assembly this. I think as the Honourable Member may have mentioned, there was …
6 Oct 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman.
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Yes, I understand where the Honourable Minister is going here, but in fairness, at that point in July the substantive Minister would not have been able to make any decisions anyway. He would have been a caretaker minister. So, the point that you are making clearly does not hold water.