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Dr. Douglas De Couto, JP, MP

Dr. Douglas De Couto, JP, MP

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26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you.
26 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam [Chairman] . My question is respect to clause 13, which outlines how the lump sum conversion factor can be adjusted with the actuarial inputs, a ctuarial review. I have two parts to my question. My first part is I presume that means that factor could go both up and down from time to time. And my …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Member from [constituency] 25. I know there are 36. I cannot remember them all myself.
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Will t he Honourabl e Premier . . . well, ac tually, l et me just t o help give the context. In December 2024, this Government advised the public that it would remove the requirement for a mandatory medical exam upon all driver's licence renewals. I personally know as of August of this year, that requirement was still in …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Madam Deputy Speaker. Many Bermudians would feel that the Government is in fact not coming through with its promises fast enough. The Premier alluded to various pieces of leg-islation working their way through the system. Does the Government have any plans to further reinforce the teams that are working on drafting and creating this legislation so that the people …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think I translate that response as there will be no changes made to the resourcing. My second supplemental is, will the Premier commit to when the public should expect to get rid of this extra expense that they must incur when renewing their driver's licence by having to get a medical? Thank you, …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My question is to the Honourable Premier regarding his statement on the table changes for the Pub-lic Service Superannuation [ (PSSF Stabilisation) ] Amendment Act 2025. I mean we were certainly glad to hear the Government acknowledge quite clearly the problems and the funding of that. I feel when we have raised that in …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, supplemental. Madam Deputy Speaker, the Premier referred to a report from the BPSU. Can the Premier highlight any specific concerns or specific issues that that report called out with respect to fund governance? For example, were there specific changes that they talked about that they would like to have been in-volved in, or something like that (other than the …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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A second question, Madam Deputy Speaker.
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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In the Honourable Premier 's Statement he states that any change to pensions is deeply personal. People plan their lives around their re-tirement expectations. Certainly , feedback and discussions that I have heard is that there is quite a lot of consternation and concern around change, which is normal, especially with respect to people's personal financial matters. My question to …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Madam Deputy Speaker, a supplemental.
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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I certainly appreciate that information. I would say that things that perhaps make sense to me and the Premier, and black and white for the average person, can be quite confusing, so [I] welcome the answer. My supplemental would be, when could the government workers expect to be able to re-ceive this very granular, concrete detail about their personal situation? …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My question for the Honourable Premier is with regard to the lump sum conversion factor. Would the Honourable Premier —
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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—Yes. Understood. 1386 12 September 2025 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly The Deputy Speaker: Yes. QUESTION 3: PUBLIC SERVICE SUPERANNUATION (PSSF STABILI SATION) AMENDMENT ACT 2025
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Would the Honourable Premier please advise this House roughly which proportion of employees choose to elect to take that lump sum conversion factor? Thank you.
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Oh, yes. Thank you very kindly, Madam Deputy Speaker. And certainly , we were appreciative to hear the Statement from the Minister . Now, we do know that many Member s of the public have a lot of demands or things that they would like done by Public Works. And until this consultation process that was outlined by the Minister …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. While his S tatement was about the private roads and processes for improvements for safety and things like that for private roads, my question was, how can Member s of the public , until those new processes come into place, who have already put in requests for repairs and safety issues around private roads . …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Madam [Deputy] Speaker, and I would like to associate myself with the comments made by MP Tucker and expand upon them a bit with some personal anecdotes, if you don't mind me saying. You know, I extend my condolences on behalf of the whole OBA family to the family of Doug, or Douglas Kempe , who left …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I refer to p age 7, clause 10( 2)(c) . . . wrong. [Clause] 10(2)(b)(iv), which requires details from a valid government -issued document. I imagine that would be a driver's licence or a passport. Some research that I have done indicates that this is not something that is actually included on many other b …
12 Sep 2025 House of Assembly
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Point of information, Mr. Chairman— Hon. E. David Burt: If I may — [Crosstalk] Hon. E. David Burt: Just give me a second.