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Scott Pearman, MP

Scott Pearman, MP

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27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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You mentioned how the process will work and you discussed how the questions by D efence Counsel in Chambers will be pre-vetted by the intermediary, I think you said to be age appropriate. My question is this: What happens if there is a dis agreement, and I am not sharing that there has been, but if there were a disagreement …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes. Still on the process, you also mentioned in your Statement the Bar Association has invited members of the Bar to have training pr ogrammes to understand how this process will work. Are there any other sugge stions emanating from the Bar Association or the Bar Council in relation to this process? Hon. Kathy Lynn Simmons: I have not been …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, so, I would just thank the Honourable Minister. And again, her closing Stat ement was that she is seeking to enhance the safety and happiness of children and we commend and agree with that statement. Thank you. The S peaker: No question? [Inaudible interjections]
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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No, sir, I am done. There is a nother Statement coming.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Honourable Mi nister for your Statement regarding the EIC, which is the attempt to get people from abroad to invest into Bermuda in exchange for residency or eligibility for residency certificates. My question is in regard to the suggestion that the existing situation is going to be amended. I understood your Statement to mean that it is …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you. Thank you for that very clear answer, Minister. So as I understand it, in order to first cross the threshold of the EIC, you have the $2.5 million as you have stated and it used to be that you had a five- year residency requirement before you could seek indef initely to remain. That is now being …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you. You have already referenced in your previous answer that the residential certificate is then indefinite. Are there shorter versions? Or will it be assumed that each application at that point under section 5 will be indefinite?
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Second question.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Minister. You talked about how this new change would be retrospective to certain categories of residential certificate holders, but not to certain other categories of residential certificate holders, drawing a distinction between those who o btained a residential certifi cate under the 2021 policy, who would fall within this new approach against those who applied, I believe under …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Honourable Minister. Does the Ministry or the Minister or Cabinet generally anticipate increasing or alternatively d ecreasing the $2.5 million figure?
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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No, it is the second supplementary.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Well, or I can make it the third question . . . oh, sorry. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: I have a supplementary, Mr. Speaker , if he is going to move to another question.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Well, I am actually on my second supplementary or my third question. I have one question so . . .
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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There you go. So, I wanted to defer to MP De Silva. Minister, just back on that $2.5 million and those people who are applying, in your Statement, when you said $113 million in real estate sales, am I to understand that these $113 million in real estate sales are by people who have participated in the EIC programme?
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Well, I will just do my . . . That’s my third question. Here is first supplementary. Sorry, what is directly aligned—
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Well then, my third question. Sorry, Minister, just for clarity, what does “directly aligned” mean? Does that mean these are EIC persons and there have been eff ectively 60- plus pe ople who have put in $2.5 million into real estate? What does “directly aligned” mean?
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Thank you. No further questions.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Chai rman. Minister, I have just one question and I will take a stab at the right line item and I may be wrong on the line item and indeed I may be wrong entirely on this. But I just wanted t o know. I think it is page B -232, line item 9025, Water and …
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Good evening, Madam Chai rman.
27 Feb 2023 House of Assembly
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Madam Chairman, by my watch we are over three hours and 20 minutes through our four-hour debate.