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David A. Burch

2662
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15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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25 words
And hopefully the movie will be a series, because they only were able to cover a small portion of his life. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker —
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I will not need the 30 minutes.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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56 words
I am going to talk about a few things that affect the Minist ry of Public Works. But let me just say something about Bermud iana Beach Resort. If you don’t stop the bleeding, you will continue to pay more money. And so the criticism is we spent $100 million and by “we” I mean them—
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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—and us.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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It does not matter! I did not go down that road. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I started by setting out the history of this project and there is enough blame to go around. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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The fact of the matter is— Official Hansard Report 15 November 202 4 85 Bermuda House of Assembly [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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The fact of the matter is, Mr. Speaker, they could not close on a hotel. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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They are the ones who set us off down this road. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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We also agreed . . . I accept, we agreed when we came to Government to continue down that road. The circumstances have changed, as they did with them.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker —
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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201 words
The fact of the matter is that none of this would be in the public domain if this Government hadn’t decided to put it all in the public domain. All of it. And the fact of the matter is that faced with a decision, based on a recommendation from ex-perts, we chose door number one. So that is their complaint. …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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In five years! [Inaudible interjections] [Gavel]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Everybody knows that housing goes in cycles. When we first came to Government in 1998, they had not invested in housing and there was a long list then. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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36 words
During that time, between then and now, we have created more than 400 units, Mr. Speaker, so you cannot tell me that we are not serious about addressing the problem and taking steps to do that.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Bermudiana Beach is not the only game in town insofar as providing housing for Bermudians. There is a programme, I have repeated it over and over again, and I thought that you have to repeat it 10 times for the public to hear it. But you have to repeat it 10 times for the Opposition to hear it, Mr. Speaker …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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65 words
This Government is committed to doing things about housing. And I know that people are focusing on the fact that I am retiring from politics at the next election. And that I . . . that I . . . I do not know what . . . well, they want me to go now. Sadly, Mr. Speaker, that ain’t …
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I ain’t getting fired and I ain’t quitting. [Laughter]
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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And I shall spend every waking moment that I have left in this responsibility working as hard as I can to deliver on the mandate that the PLP has promised, Mr. Speaker . [Desk thumping]