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Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

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16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Okay. I will finish off by saying that it is important for everybody to really under-stand the significance and the impact of this legislation and govern ourselves accordingly. Thank you.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I would like to draw to the Minister’s attention clause 5, where this B ill proposes to remove the language in relation to a subject matter of record. Madam Chairman, this applies to a circumstance where a health professional has to determine if a disclosure will be prejudicial to an individual. And the reason why I …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you. I will speak to clause 7. There is some curiosity in clause 7 which deals with the Office of the Commissioner becoming vacant. So, for example, in this clause, it deals with the position becoming vacant if the Commissioner resigns his office, for example. And that condition applies to any public officer at any point. So, it …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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“If the Commissioner becomes a Senator or a member of, or a confirmed can-didate for election to, the House of Assembly or the holder of any office in any political party.” And I express some caution here, some reservation here because there are only 40,000 registered voters in Bermuda. And one of my c oncerns would be that this would …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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If they wish. Exactly. In this case, it looks like they would have to resign if they wish to run at all.
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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And that would be, yes, even more so to my point. So, I always urge caution in that front. So, fair enough. Point taken, Madam Chairman. And that leaves me with the last [question] on clause 10 which the Minister spoke to. This deals with the Minister may appoint different days for the Act to come into force in respect …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Well, a question and comment. But the question relates to I do not understand the phrase “for different purposes” though. Definitely the Minist er may appoint different days for this legislation to come into force in respect of different classes of organisations such as reinsurance companies. But could he clarify what he means by “for different purposes”? And those are …
16 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I would echo the Opposition Leader’s point on that matter. It reads as if right now we are enabling an amendment or a change to PATI by a negative resolution. And the problem that this poses is that obviously it empowers the Minister in an incredible manner. For example, recently, the Court of Appeal affirmed the …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Mr. Deputy Speaker, hello colleagues, and the listening audience.
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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I want to add my comments of congratulations to every single person who was involved on May 26 for Bermuda Day. Fir st of all, the road race for the pedal bikes. They had some challenges in terms of having marshals available, but I want to com-mend Mr. Dunne, who is the President of the Bermuda Bicycling Association because he …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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And then beyond that, of course we had the Bermuda Day half -marathon, definitely an exciting race, difficult running conditions. And I will certainly add my congratulations to everyone who participated. I thi nk sometimes during the race we forget that there are actually many, many categories. And so to every single person who participated, there are one or two …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, Madam Acting Speaker.
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Acting Speaker. Madam Acting Speaker, I rise first of all to say that it is vital that we have financial assistance and that we continually reform financial assistance. I have gone on record before saying that a society is judged by the manner in which it treats its most vulnerable, and we will always have the vulnerable …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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It falls to this House to question what the best use is of all these resources that we are putting toward the social programmes. Is it better spent in job training or creating jobs, reducing red tape, or growing the economy? If this Governm ent is to prove that it cares about Bermuda, then it has to prove that it’s …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. [Inaudible interjections]
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Thank you, Madam Acting Speaker. And to that end, Madam Acting Speaker, there is a lot of things that can be said about financial assis-tance, but I think the big one, the big takeaway, certainly from this side of the House, is that we can only do these things, we can only be compassionate. If we are not …
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, Ma’am, number 7.
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Is it correct? Is it Acting? Is it Madam Acting Speaker?
2 Jun 2023 House of Assembly
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Okay. Good afternoon, Madam Acting Speaker. And to my colleagues again and to those in the listening audience. I will say this, and I smile because others have said the exact same thing, and that is that there was no fundamental intention to speak today. But the beauty of coming to the House of Assembly is that sometimes the thoughts …