Speeches by Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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We did not have VAR. But the thing is, getting back to it, it is for a good reason. And I actually encourage more Members in the House here to participate. There is another tournament that is coming up called Conquer D’West, which is coming up at the end of the month. So, any Members who would like to play …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Well, we will come to the Russian Cup Match. I do understand that. That is correct. But, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Acting Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity to be able to speak to this report of the Efficiency Committee. I guess I want to start off by saying that I see in the r eport lots of entrepreneurial opportunities. However, I do not think it is a $122,000 report. And I do not mean that in a …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Definitely.

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Okay.

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Minister, for that clar ification. I appreciate it. Well, I am glad to know that we actually did collect that money. So, I guess starting out, the Chairman of the Committee thought that they were going to identify where they thought inefficienc ies existed and then make recommendations for the improvement. So, what I do not understand is …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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We can go back and forth with who was Government at the time. That does not change the fact that we were the Government, and now you are the Government, and it is 2019, and we are still in the same position. They said that the TIMS project has run into cost “overruns due to implementation delays, and the development …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Oh, okay. Thank you. I take the Minister’s point. However, we can continue to go back and fort h and say, Oh, well, what happened when you were Government? And what happened when you were Government? I understand. I understand. But, however . . . okay, we did not address it in 2012— [Inaudible interjection]

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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This is 2019! So, we have had another further two years of revenue. It says right here that they paid the bills up until July of 2018. That is what it says on my piece of paper. And, in fact, it says it started in 2012, and it had goals that it could not achieve. And we have continued to …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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I take your point. I take your point. It is just a suggestion. And these are just my com-ments on your suggestions. [Inaudible interjection]

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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What am I suggesting? I am suggesting . . . Well, that is not for this forum, but there are whole bunch of —no, no, no. There are a lot of things that we need to do. And I do not know if you were there at the HSBC Bermuda Index Survey Results. But there are a lot of things …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Acting Speaker. The next point I have, Mr. Acting Speaker, is training. Now, for the Office of the Tax Commissioner, the report ide ntifies that the staff at the Office of the Tax Commissioner have 10 to 30 years’ experience in tax collection. And I guess my question is, if you have got people who have 10 …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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—disconnect there. (Thank you. Thank you.) [Inaudible interjection]

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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So, I will take a point of clarific ation. POINT OF CLARIFICATION Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Yes. And I take the point. The Member is saying 30, 40, 50 years. The problem is that you are collecting $100 million, and any one person is not going to be able to collect it. So, you need more, additional staff. And that …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Minister. So, I guess my point to that is that it had to take a while to get to $100 million. And so, I refer back to my point that . . . I said it had to take a while to get to $100 million outstanding. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Point of order, Mr. Acting …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Minister. I appreciate that. I agree that it would not take a very long time, possibly. However, it does take some time. It would take some time. [Inaudible interjections]

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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It takes some time. So, you know, one of the things that . . . as a lawyer, I ha ve to do is I have to do what we call CLEs, continuing learning education. And this should be something that everyone has to do, because times are changing, systems are evolving, as we have ident ified. Processes are changing. …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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I’m past that. Hon. Trevor G. Moniz: The situation has lasted for years. You know it has lasted for years. You know it. [Laughter]

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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I have moved past that point. Now I am talking about how we need to educate . . . And the Minister over here explained it for me. He did explain it. I take your point. I know that it is easy to accumulate money. I guess I am just referring back to the point where you have people who …

5 Jul 2019 House of Assembly

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Okay. Okay. Anyway —