Speeches by Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman and Honourable Minister. Thank you. I will move into the business units now. As it relates to business unit 54060, Administr ation, one of the performance measures here is , number one, “Number of Throne Speech initiatives completed during the fiscal year. ” I note that we had orig inally set out to accomplish five. …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Not on that point. Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you, Honour able Minis ter. Madam Chairman, just a point on number two, same business unit, 54060, Variance . This performance measurement is to ensure that we have a plus or minus 5 per cent variance between the approved estimate and actual current account expenditure for the M inistry …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Just on that point of the number of investigations, the Honourable Minister in his brief did say there was —and I apologi se, I may have transcribed some of these numbers wrong, but it is thereabouts — some 565 complaints of which 475 were consult ations. There were 20 specific complaints; 44 in relation to …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Thank you, Honourable Minister. And to . . . and . . . the Minister said 18 . . . Oh, yes. Great. As it relates to immigration appeals, Madam Chairman, still on page B-175, business unit 54210, Immigration Appeals Tribunal . Number two, the performance measure has a “Number of Immigr ation Tribunals still …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. And this relates to question number three, I note that . . . Oh, sorry, my question is as it relates to performance measurement number three, “Percentage (%) of Immigration Tribunals still outstanding at the end of the period. ” I note that in 2020/21, we were looking, there was this expectation that some 22 …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Thank you, Honourable Minist er. With that being said . . . And that is very understandable. With that being said, there are nonetheless Government fees funding that operation. And so, my only point would be to the Honourable Minister, not so much a question, but we would still want some form of accountability for …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Thank you, Honourable Minister. So, a question I still have on page B-175, under business unit 54200, labour relations section, number three. Some of the performance measur ements they are supposed to undertake this year are a number of outreach presentations. My question to the Minister is: Outreach to whom and for what purpose? What …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Madam Chai rman, as it relates to the number of outreaches, I am not sure the extent to which how much work goes into the process. But given the signi ficance of changes that took place under the consol idated labour legislation and all of the attendant r esponsibilitie s and powers, my point would …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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And Madam Chairman, that goes back to my point —I think I raised it last year with this specific Honourable Minister —that there is so much to get said in the Ministry in the brief. And there is so much. In fact, this year’s brief had a section that said, I want to say, upcoming events this year or plans …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. But this — Hon. Jason Hayward: Madam Chairman, I actually prefer to take the questions one by one. Because what happens here is when he rolls off 20 questions and then I respond to one of the 20 questions and he has a follow up for that one question, it throws the whole sequence off.

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Madam Chai rman, I am now on Head 14, D epartment of Statistics, page B -176. Specifically, Mad-am Chairman, this head in the Budget Book is r equesting a spend of some $2.171 million for the D epartment of S tatistics to produce and provide statist ical information for data- driven decision- making for Bermuda. …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Madam Chairman, would the Honourable Minister explain under the department objectives . . . We see the second objective, adopt current international statistical methodologies, stan dards, and best practices in the collection, collation and producti on of statistics. This objective was in last year’s Budget Book. So, it begs the question: Has it been undertaken? What exactly does this involve, …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Sorry, Madam Chairman. I was referring to the secon d bullet point, which says to adopt current international —

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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The third? I apologise.

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Thank you very much. To that end, international best practices being what we have here . . . Is the Minister saying that right now Berm uda has adopted all of the current intern ational statistical methodologies, standards and best practices? Hon. Jason Hayward: So, Madam Chairman, what you will find for every survey produced is what we …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman and Honourable Minister. Then my question would relate to . . . I would take us to page B-178, specifically business unit 24055, the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey from data collected via electronic devices. This performance measurement is to be determined. But my understanding, and I stand to be guided, is that the …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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I am just sort of trying to build it up, because this world of statistics has nothing straightforward in it, Madam Chairman, at least in my research. So, my question is: Are we going to run the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey to update the Consumer Price Index methodology to get a new way of running our inflation this …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman and Honourable Minister. My next ques tion takes us off page B -176 in the department objectives and into the subjective analysis of . . . actually, the employee numbers (full - time equivalents) on B -177 for H ead 14, Madam Chairman.

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. So, my question relates to the Department of Statistics. Specifically, we have employee numbers under business units starting with 24015 , and [continuing] with 24020, 24025 and 24055. What appear to be, well, business units. My questio n to the Honour able Minister is: Which one of these business units co rrelate to the divisions …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, Madam Chairman. Clarified only because I was trying to look at page B-178 and the divisions wit hin that department and see which one of those divisions is undertaking which one of these workstreams. But I take the point that the business units as outlined under H ead 14 do not . . . can transcend, sort of. They …