Speeches by Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

14 Feb 2020 House of Assembly

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All right. Thank you.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And Happy New Year; I haven’t seen you either.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, as the Minister has said, this is a simple Bill on its surface. But, you know, sometimes things that appear to be simple often are fraught with challenges. So I agree that, you know, it is necessary for the Department of Statistics to be able to compile i nformation and data and relevant activity so that they can …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess I am going to go back to the definition “information in the public domain.” S o it says, “ ‘information in the public domain’ includes information . . . .” So —

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Oh, I’m sorry. Clause 2, “The principal Act is amended” and then it gives the defin ition of “information in the public domain.” On page 1.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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So, information in the public domain includes information. So “includes information” means to me that, in addition to the information that is already in the public domain, that th ere would be access to other information outside of this. But the only words that are missing there are includes but not li mited to. Is it intended that this is …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Yes, please.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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It says “includes.” But it is not li mited to that information. So, if the definition said, information in the public domain is —is—information that can be found. But it does not say that. It says “includes” which leads me to believe that in addition to this information any other thing that they want to ask for may be included. …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you. But it does not remove doubt. If you wanted to remov e doubt, you would say, information in the public domain is information. This says “includes” so it is a broad definition. So it allows the ability to obtain i nformation other than what is stated here. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Mr. Chairman, I just take advice from …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Mr. Chairman, on page 2 under clause [3] . . . I lost . . . sorry. Okay. Sorry. On page 2, [new section] 4(2). “ The Director shall in the performance of his duties — “(a) promote the avoidance of duplication in the information collected by Ministries, other Gover nment Departments and public authorities; ”. What duplication is anticipated …

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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[New section] 4(2) and then 2(a). So, “ promote the avoidance of duplication in the i nformation collected . . . .” 2940 31 January 2020 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Chairman: Right here.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Under Duties of Director.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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You got it.

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So my question is, What duplic ation would be anticipated [that] needs to be avoided? And . . . what . . . I forgot what I —

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[New section] 4(2)(a).

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My question is, What information is anticipated being duplicated? And how do they anticipate avoiding the duplication? [Pause]

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Mr. Chairman.

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We can take this offline if . . . I am sure the public would like to know the answers, but if it is too hard to answer now, we can do it later.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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I appreciate that and I guess my question was just what type . . . it is in the Act because there is anticipated duplication, and I am just asking what that would be. But we can talk about it later.

31 Jan 2020 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we generally go along with this legislation. It is pretty much cleaning up a bunch of things in old legislation that needs to be addressed. And I probably should . . . I do not have any objection. I just have a couple of questions. And I do not know whether I can do …