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E. Grant Gibbons

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15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Supplementary.
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Does the Honourable Member understand that this ACBDA cash surplus means that, despite his media claims to the contrary, no additional taxpayer monies will need to be spent and that the overall ACBDA and Ministry of Economic budget will come in under budget for the event?
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker; supplementary.
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Is the Honourable Member aware that calculations for the final AC sponsorship guarantee were complicated by a variety of rev enues, including rentals, ticket sales, and performance factors on some of the sponsorships, that would only be known following the finals, and that it would have been impossible in January, when the budget was written, to precisely estimate these amounts?
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, a new question. Thank you. Thank you. Apart from the Honourable Member’s implic ation that there has been improper transfer of information, there was actually an ACBDA board meeting in July, which I attended. So, with respect to the Statement on budgeting, is the Honourable Member fully aware of the judgment calls that were required in stating or essen-tially …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Does the Hon ourable Premier understand that, in developing a budgeted amount, there are more issues — Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Clerk: What is the point of order? Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: The Honourable Member is asking if the Premi er understands?
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I will repeat it. Would the Honourabl e Member c oncede that there are mor e issues i nvolv ed in getting a bu dgeted amount t han simply getting a recommendation from one part of the overall A CBDA and Ministry gr oup, and that certainly discussions woul d normally b e held with the Ministry of Financ e …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I do. The issue, the next one I want to raise a question on comes after the fact that there was no promise ever to cover the full $25 million; the Honourable Member knows that. So the question is, Would the Honourable Member concede that his Statement about AC bud geting was really politics …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think, as we are all aware, the BTA is a semi -autonomous organisation and must be accountable for its own governance. But generally, when audit recommendations or suggestions are made by the auditor, there is the ability for management to provide their own response, because sometimes the auditor has not quite got it right or …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Could the Honourable Member give us an indication of what clearly must have been some very serious issues that arose in the 2010 and 2011 years of the BLDC, under the former Government —that is, the former PLP Government —that would have delayed these accounts being audited by, let us see, we are talking about close to six …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Sorry; I have only asked one question.
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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It will be a supplementary.
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Since the audited accounts, according to the Minister, have only recently been completed by the Office of the Auditor General, would it not be accurate to say that an AGM would have been academic before those financial statements were really available? In other words, what was the point of having an AGM if the financial …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Supplementary.
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you. To the Minister, would it not be fair to say that, really, the bulk of his criticism is really aimed at the Auditor General and not the former Government, gi ven the serious delay in actually auditing those 2010 and 2011 accounts?
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would also rise this morning (or this afternoon, at this point), to ask that condolences be sent to the family of the late William “Billy” Boyle, who, many members will know, was a member of the Corporation [of Hamilton] for many, many years. He was mayor between 1994 and 1997. In fact, his …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I would like to start . . . I do not usually do this, but I would like to start by commending the Opposition Leader for a Reply to the Throne Speech which I thought was very solid. And that may sound like feigned praise, but I think that we on this …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Well, you look at the stats. People are saying it is not so. But if you look at the stats there was an increase— [Inaudible interjections]
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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—and I am talking about overall jobs, not just Bermuda jobs. Certainly the loss of Bermuda jobs, or Bermudians holding jobs, go ing into unemployment, abated substantially. I think it is fair to say that the One Bermuda Alliance Government took a very balanced approach to fixing the economy, first of all to contain the cost of government, and to …