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Scott Pearman, MP

Scott Pearman, MP

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15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I am afraid the Honourable Member is misleading the House. He may not know this but the Pearmans are not Forty Thieves. I will just set the historical record straight for you. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Fairmont Southampton. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Fairmont Southampton. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Pearman. [Inaudible interjection] Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: I am not afraid to be corrected, and I stand to be corrected. And I thank you for that because I want the record to be correct. So I am with you on that. But it …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker .
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member from constituency 29 is misleading the House. He may wish to look at his own Speech from the Throne, page 14 —
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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“Recent local developments in food supply and financial services can have an ongoing adverse impact on prices, which this community can ill - afford.” . . . “[A] worrying consolidation in key industries has occurred in Bermuda.” [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Food supply. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: I didn’t hear . . . food supply? That could be BGA, that could be Butterfield & Vallis. It could be the restaurants. [Inaudible interjections] Official Hansard Report 15 November 202 4 79 Bermuda House of Assembly Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: It could be any, any, any business. See, Mr. …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker .
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Member is again misleading the House. I not only mentioned our Reply [to the Throne Speech], I quoted from it on several oc-casions.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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And I was accused of kissing ass for doing so. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Kissing who?
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Apologies if that was unparliamentary. [Laughter]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Sorry, two million — 86 15 November 2024 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly Lt. Col. Hon. David A. Burch: And the fact of the matter is, Mr. Speaker, both Governments are guilty of not investing in infrastructure. They seem to forget that they had a role in it for five years between our time, but for 400 before …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. Hon. E. David Burt: —to fairness. POINT OF ORDER [Imputing improper motives]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Honourable Premier is imputing an improper motive. He is better than that, and he knows it.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is quite late in the day, and I note that there are no technical officers present. I have one question for the Junior Minister, but I am happy to pose it and have him answer it at a later date if he wishes to do so in the absence of the technical offic …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That is the question to Minister Roban, correct?
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Minister. And thank you for your Statement to this Honourable House this morning on the Tabling of Amendments to the Elec-tricity Act. In your Statement, you say that we are going to see the creation of a licence for “large developments to generate electricity above the current licence threshold of five hundred kilowatts.” I am just curious, …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Minister, in identifying those two potential sites. In relation to those and quoting from your Statement, you say that the Bill is seeking to strike “a balance between the needs of the licence holder (also known as a distributed generator), and the stability of the grid while minimising any negative impacts, including …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, second supplementary. So just so we are clear, Minister, where you say in the second paragraph, “licence holder,” that is any new potential licence holder? I think that is what you have just confirmed. Thank you. Hon. Walter H. Roban: Yes. QUESTION 2: TABLING OF AMENDMENTS TO THE ELECTRICITY ACT 2016 TO CREATE A BULK GENERATION SOLE- USE INSTALLATION …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, second question. On page 2 of your Statement, you have indicated (and I will quote again) that it “would be completely off the grid, that is, would not have a BELCO meter. Bulk Generation Licence holders must enter into a Power Purchase Agreement . . . with BELCO to sell all their generated electricity back to BELCO . . …
20 Sep 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplementary. Thank you. Yes. I think we are in the right church. Just let us see if we can get in the pew here. You are talking about potential, as I understood it, large- scale self -supply licences for potentially two identified spots, namely, NSC [National Sports Centre] and the depot in Devonshire. And the Statement says that they …