Speeches by Ben Smith, MP

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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So my original question was, Did the Minister learn that there was an uptick in transfers once the announcement was made the last time, so that it would give him an informed decision of the potential of transfers that would happen from the announcement that has just happened on Monday? So that would allow us to know whether we should …

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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So, the data that would have been collected from the first set of closures last year, what has that data taught them about what we should anticipate for transfers from the schools that will close next year? Considering that it is a year from now, they wou ld have learned that same lesson when that announcement was made for the …

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Supplementary, Mr. Speaker.

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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When the announcement was made for last year, parents would have made a decision in advance whether they should enrol students into the school that was going to close or whether they would transfer their students in anticipation of the closure. Was that t he information that was learned through round one, which would now allow us to say there …

31 May 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like on behalf of the One Bermuda Alliance to congratulate and welcome our lat-est MP to the House of Assembly. [Desk thumping]

31 May 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Robert King, MP King. Thank you,

31 May 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you to the Minister for his brief. Mr. Speaker, I would like to start off with, we recently came to the House and decided that there was going to be a Joint Select Committee for Cybersecurity. But before the members of that committee have been formed and before that committee has had its f …

31 May 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the reason I brought up the Joint Select Committee is because I think the population and Members of this House would understand that what happened last September made cybersecurity something that would be really important for the population to understand, probably more so than most of the population had thought about prior to September last …

31 May 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, earlier this week someone forwarded me a Facebook post that had been put up by a young athlete who had competed last week in the Bermuda Day m arathon. He was frustrated and upset . . . not in himself, not in his own performance, but in the behaviour of some of the people …

17 May 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you to the Minister for the update on this supplementary. A couple of questions. Considering that the Opposition brought up during this recent budget debate that there was going to be a need, because of the shortfall that we had seen in Corrections, that we would have to continue to have a large amount of …

17 May 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. And thank you to the Minister. If the Minister could provide for us, considering that there was an added change with the reform happening, what percentage increase would have been caused in that year because of the reform that would have been different from other years? And on a go- forward basis, obviously we have heard …

3 May 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I just have a few questions for the Minister. Firstly, I would like to just state, as it has been said a couple of times, that I believe that across the aisle everybody is in agreement that health care—the cost of health care, the quali ty of health care—is, if not the …

8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, and good morning, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Would the Honourable Premier be able to let us know whether he has been made aware of any sporting, international sports tourism events that might be impacted negatively by the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s grant being reduced for the upcoming year? Thank you.

8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes. Would the Honourable Premier let us know that if he does become aware that this is impacting our having specific events whether he would go back to looking whether we should increase the grant in order that we do not lose these events? Hon. E. David Burt: Here is what I will say, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I will say …

8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, I would like to thank the Minister for his brief today and for giving the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers on this important Ministry. Mr. Chairman, I will start on Head 16, Ministry of Education, page B -132.

8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly

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In the past we were told that the General Administration, there was a much larger budget for this under cost centre 26000. A lot of that had been moved to the Reform Unit. But if the Minister could just give us a little bit more detail on what exactly happened within the Administration outside of the Reform Unit, just so …

8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, would the Minister be able to give us a breakdown whether there are students who graduate from private schools who will apply for some Bermuda House of Assembly of the scholarships that are provided by the government, and the breakdown of the difference between students who are graduating from public school and private school …

8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Chairman, it is difficult because there seem to be people who are being taken from dif-ferent parts of . . . In order to get the education reform, they are coming from different areas. So can the Minister provide how many teachers who would normally be in a classroom are participating in the reform? I know the Minister just …

8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes. I am sorry, Mr. Chairman.

8 Mar 2024 House of Assembly

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I am still under business unit 26140, Education Reform Unit.