Speeches by Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. So , on advertising and promotion under subjective analysis of current account estimates, it currently has $265[,000] under 2020/21 and then z ero. And the Honourable Minister is saying that zero is incorrect. If we just shift up that column, we then wind up w ith the correct number which would then be advertising and …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, that was very helpful. But I am wondering, and I stand to be guided by you, Madam Chairman, as it relates to page B-180 on subjective analysis of current account estimates. My questions have been a nswered, but the answer is that there is a sheet. . . . What do we do?

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. Then, moving on to . . . Madam Chairman, I am still on head— Hon. Jason Hayward: Excuse me, Madam Chai rman, if I can touch on a couple of questions that he asked in the past and —

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Yes please, Madam Chai rman.

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, the only one that I have outstanding is the data quality assessment framework question. But I am very happy to move on. But I just wanted to put a flag on that. On Head 27 Immigration, page B -182, under the performance measures for business unit 37010, corporate services, specifically the performance measurement is average …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, and Honourable Minister. Madam Chairman, we have under similar ci rcumstance or under bus iness unit 37020 personal services, again on page B -182, average process time for passport issuance days, which is about four down from the top. It says that we had an original forecast of four to six weeks. The revised forecast …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, thank you, Honourable Minister. Madam Chairman, I draw attention to page B - 183, business unit 37030, compliance. I actually apologise, it’s not that one, it’s 37040, finance and admi nistration. I see that the Honourable Minister has under performance measures the very last one, a number of key positions identified that require a succession …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, and I thank the Honourable Minister. I am moving on to H ead 55, financial assi stance, specifically page B -184 wherein the requested spend for financial assistance is $52.9 million, $48.8 million of which is actual grants and contributions, leaving a balance of something like $4 million. This spend is in relation to assisting …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Absolutely, yes. In the Minister’s brief he at some point said the department was looking at rolling out one of the ISO standards. The ISO standard that I wrote down was 31000. Reading the department objective it mentioned an internationally recognised standard of care as one of the objectives . . . to apply that. My question is, Is the …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, and I thank the Honourable Minister. As it relates to the statement, the Minister’s brief, where ISO 31000 was raised, can the Honour able Minister speak to the pl an for implementing that in the department?

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. My next — Hon. Jason Hayward: Madam Chairman, just to answer the question on that one, I just looked at the wording in the statement and it said that it was being researched for consideration. So, I do not think a decision for implementation is there, but what is there is an acknowledgement that there …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. My next ques tion relates to the subjective anal ysis of current account estimates on page B -185, specifically the column 2021/22 revised, where we see a recorded spend of some $688,000 under professional services. Would the Honourable Minister be able to clarify what t hat spend was for? Hon. Jason Hayward: The majority of …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Madam Chairman, a follow - up question there is, Given that see under professional services that the requested amount of money for the 2022/23 estimate on the subjective analysis of current account estimates for professional services goes down to $150,000, my question would be, have those staff been transitioned anywhere within the heads that we are discussing at the moment?

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, thank you Honourable Mini ster. I am just checking my research to make sure the next question is relevant. Yes, so, Madam Chai rman, thank you so much. I am on page B -186 under full-time equivalents. My question relates to the full - time equivalents. We are shown that we originally indicated in 2021/22, …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, and I thank the Honourable Minister. My next question is on page B -187. This question relates to the structure of the department, again the two not mapping neatly . I note that this department has potentially some 40 persons. And at $52.9 million it is something like 72 per cent of the expenditure of …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Sure. Madam Chairman, my question is . . . this r equest is for $5 2.9 million, which we use 40 staff, 40 full-time equivalents. It forms 72 per cent of the expenditure of this Ministry. Why is there only four performance measurements given how important this head is?

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, thank you Honourable Minister. Hon. Jason Hayward: The second clarification as well is . . . I just want to clear it up. The Household Expenditure Survey . . . but the metrics in the book do not speak to household expenditure, it speaks to household final consumption. And that is one of the components …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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No, thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you, Honourable Minister. Madam Chairman, I am ready to put my next question forward.

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. So, I am on Head 55, Financial Assistance, still on page B -187. I just want to make a note that I do not think I differ from the Minister in the importance of this. One of the points he made about the social safety net is all-important in my mind, and I think that …

11 Mar 2022 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chai rman, thank you Honourable Minister. As it relates to speaking about the ablebodied unemployed segment, for those needing assi stance, we have a personal employment plan, and you did speak to a psychological component. I note that the Financial Assistance Department has some 40 people, and it is broken down into relationship coordi-nator . . . …