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Jeanne J. Atherden

128
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33,378
Words Spoken
13
Sittings Active
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report
52 words
I will yield, in the collabor ative manner that I am thinking about. POINT OF CLARIFICATION Hon. Walton Brown: Honourable Deputy Speaker , the Honourable Member will know that matters invol ving finance will come with the budget and this is a Throne Speech deliberation. That is ill -suited for this forum.
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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974 words
Mr. Deputy Speaker , I would have said that. But in view of the fact that this morning we heard so many things about supplementaries and things that one would normally not talk about until budget in February, I take the position that, Hey, let’s get real about this. Okay? So right now ev ery time someone comes up and …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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128 words
One minute? I worry that when I see that, you know, you have a programme and the people who least need it are taking advantage of it. So all I want to say is the fact that . . . for me, I want to be sure that the vision is there, that the pr ogrammes are going to be …
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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3 words
Point of information.
15 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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87 words
I would just like to draw to the Honourable Member ’s attention that you are right, that is the type of thing that the Government did. We went out and we bought all of our drugs related to the HIV and those drugs, we bought them through the Global Fund so that we reduced the cost. It is like we …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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280 words
Mr. Speaker, you know it is not my practice to speak a lot on the motion to ad-journ because I tend to like to listen and hear what people are saying. But, Mr. Speaker, I really feel moved to stand up and say a few words, first of all with res pect to the Member who just sat down. I …
3 Jun 2016 House of Assembly
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1,977 words
So, Madam Deputy Speaker, I just want to go through and I want to make a couple of observations. If you go back and look you understand and realise that when the former Gover nment . . . and I am saying these things, not because I am trying to say, You didn’t do it, and now we are doing …
2 Mar 2016 House of Assembly
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298 words
It is definitely a tongue twister. —sever acute respiratory symptoms (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, coronavirus, MERS cough [MERS -CoV], Chikungunya, and Zika virus. Mr. Speaker, new infectious diseases are constantly emerging and a mechanism to update the reportable communicable diseases list was needed to empower the Minister to rapidly revise the list when needed. The Minister will now be …