Speeches by Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Further, requesting clarification from the Minister on business unit, training administration 70014. The performance on page B -190, or measure, is input initial client’s case data into the Career Information Develop-ment System within two working days of receipt. The target outcome is five working days. I am not sure two working days versus five working days …

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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I’ll keep going—

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Mr. Chairman, my only outstanding question, other than the ones for Head 60, still relates to Head 14 where we were waiting on . . . I believe it’s Head 14—

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, Mr. Chairman.

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Mr. Chairman, that is it for my questions and presentation this evening. However, I will wait on the Minister for those responses on page B - 190 and B -191.

8 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, I just wanted to conclude the presentation by thanking the Minister for answering the questions. I will defer and wait for the answers to come, and I wish him the best of luck with his Ministry for this fiscal period.

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I thank the Honourable Minister for his presenta-tion. Today on the Economic Development Department and Immigration, Mr. Chairman, I would start my contribution by asking the Minister for further infor-mation as it relates to [page] B -179 under Head 27 Immigration, more specifically, professional services. In the 2022/23 original, $168,000 was estimated to be spent …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Given that all are Bermudians and they do not appear under the employee numbers full -time equivalents, one presumes that these consultants are paying for their employment benefits themselves.

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Honourable Minister for confirming that all of the consultants are in fact Bermudians and that they are paying for all of the benefits themselves and not receiving any others. To that end, I would ask the Minister about something which is not appearing in the Budget Book but which he spoke about just …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, thank you Minister. Would the Minister be able to inform this Honourable House when he anticipates phase 1 being completed? The Chairman: Minister. Hon. Jason Hayward: I will endeavour to provide a full Ministerial Statement on the Immigration Reform Initia-tives as well as the specific strategic priority of the dig-itisation of the Immigrat ion Department. It …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank the Honourable Minister for that. I am cer-tainly looking forward to that update, which, again, we read about for going on a year now. With that being said, Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Minister as it relates to Head 27 on page B - 180, specifically under business unit 37010, …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Honourable Minister for his answer. Now moving on to business unit 37020, personal services, again on page B -180, the same question as it relates to performance measurements, but for passport processing thi s time. We have passport processing, the actual outcome, that is, the amount of time it takes the department to …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, and thank you Honourable Minister for that answer. I will follow up with t he following question. I note that the performance measurements for both corporate services and personal services do not track for complaints related to work permits and pass-ports. My question to the Honourable Minister is, Does the department in fact track complaints and can those be …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you. If I can get the Honourable Minister to confirm on page B -192 the objectives set out. Right now we have seven department objectives. But we have under the performance measurements ––in other words, what we expect the Department of Economic Development to perform, those expectations are set out on page B - 195. Mr. Chairman, you …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Sorry, Mr. Chairman. I think I might be looking at a different copy, but I am seeing double asterisks next to programme 9405 under conci-erge and engagement . There are double asterisks.

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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He has. And I thank the Minister for his clarification.

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you so much. Would the Honourable Minister be able to give a breakdown . . . I am now talking about the employee numbers, full -time equivalents on page B -194, most specifically, Minister, in last year’s debate you gave a breakdown of the staff as they are deployed within the department. Would the Minister be able to give …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you. To that end, Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Minister about the BEDC grant. Most especially, the BEDC have been allocated $2.2 million and last year I had raised that the BEDC had not . . . its last audited accounts were in 2018, according to the Auditor Gen-eral. And the last annual report from …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Another question that I would like answered relates to the deployment of staff. I am not sure if the Min-ister has gotten that response yet, but as it stands so far, we have three pr ogrammes in the performance expectations from this department, namely, analysis and policy (I am looking at page B -195), research …

6 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, I thank the Honourable Minister for his presentation and responses. I think he brought up a great example of one of the difficulties that I have with the Budget Book which seems to reach back to the 1980s in terms of format. For example, the Min-ister brought up research and legislative . . . by the way, I am …