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E. Grant Gibbons

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20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Oh, I am sorry. I move that the supplementary for Public Transportation be approved.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman, we are down to Head 57 which is Civil Aviation and this was a transition grant of $4,233,788. By way of explanation, in March of 2015, the Government took the decision to convert the Depar tment of Civil Aviation, Head 57 . . . actually, I probably should do both of these together because they are …
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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All right. I also move Maritime Administration which is Head 73. So, in March 2015 the Government took the decision to convert both the Department of Civil Aviation (which is Head 57) and the Department of Mar itime Admin istration (Head 73) from government departments into independent quasi- governmental authorities, quangos. Each authority was to be provided an interest -free …
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I move that Head 57 for $4,233,788 and Head 73 for Maritime Administration $2,432,056 be approved.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank y ou, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, as you said, this capital development piece is for the Corporation of St. George’s. It was a grant of $1.408 mi llion. The Corporation, as the Honourable Member who speaks for Finance suggested, requested capital funding to facil itate much needed infrastructure work at Penno’s Wharf and the existing ferry terminal dock in …
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. The work has already started. It is ongoing. I think they are obviously trying to get it done before the cruise ships start to come this summer which is May, I think.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I think that the simple issue here is the St. George’s asked for assistance. The Government, obviously, was prepared to help. There were some i ssues, just in terms of having the original ferry stop at Penno’s Wharf. You cannot have cruise ships and the ferry stop there. So, they had to move the ferry stop …
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. There is a simple order of magnitude involved here and the amount of money, but that is a different issue. I would like to ask that the capital development of $1,408,225 for the capital development of the St. George’s be approved.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. I am up to Item 7, which is a capital development grant for the Bermuda Airport Authority of $3,553,000. Actually, there is an issue. The Bermuda Airport Authority was only formed on the 12 th of March. So, technically, this was really Airport Oper ations. But, they requested capital funding to do some significant capital …
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. I think this was the request. I think some of this stuff really needed to be addressed and perhaps it would be fair to say that they packaged all the stuff together. So, that was the nature of the request.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I am informed that there was actually probably a longer list of things and apparently Aecon decided to take on the X -ray machine, but I think the rest of it had already been started to try and get the airport up to a state to address some of these issues.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I think the answer to that is for the same reason we had to address mould issues in the building we are in right now, schools and the rest of it. I think nobody wants to work in a building which has got mould issues. And I think as far as the fire-stopping was concerned, there were code issues there …
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. My notes say that they were required with respect to the airline apron lighting to meet international regulations for night -time flight operations.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I would like to move the Civil Aviation . . . sorry, the Bermuda Airport Authority capital grant of $3,553,000 and ask that it be approved.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. With the permission of the House, perhaps I could do the next two, Civil Aviation and Maritime Administration together?
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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They are both tra nsition works. [Inaudible interjections]
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you. I am grateful to that Honourable Member from . . . what is it, [constituency] 21?
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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What? [Constitue ncy] 29? The Chai rman: [Constituency] 29.
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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[Constituency] 29, okay. Yes, [constituency] 22 is standing right now , barely . Both of these involved essentially the work required to essentially establish external office loc ations for the Departments of Civil Aviation and Mar itime Administration as they transition in to new roles as quangos. And it is for IT and telephone related equipment; new furniture and office …
20 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, thank you, Madam Chairman. I move that the Civil Aviation capital develo pment transition works of $500,000 and the Maritime Administration capital development transition works of $650,000 be approved.