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Lauren Bell

Lauren Bell

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29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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—on that same Bill. [Crosstalk and laughter ]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Tip to go one. Tip to go one. Gets out, gets in. [Inaudible interjections]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, many of the clauses in this Public Access to Information Amendment Act 2024, as the Minister has rightly pointed out, 174 29 November 2024 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly are minor and procedural. And she quite succinctly captured their purpose of streamlining, providing clarity and proper alignment between the Regulations and the Act itself. Some of …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I did ask for your guidance should I be standing on thin ice. [Inaudible interjections]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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So the point is taken. [Pause]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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As a result of our concerns with the language and our concerns about the impact this may have on inclusivity, transparency [and] accountability, the One Bermuda Alliance is calling on the Government to pause, pull up the hand break and reconsider the char ging of fees. You know, until government is digitised, which will help with this process, until effi-ciency …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes. [Laughter ]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Whether these tools that would be needed have been created. Whether the guidance has been created and whether or not the training on the application of the limits and fees has commenced or been completed. As the then Minister said, on behalf of the Government, this would be required to ensure consistency of implementation across public authorities. It would also …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Minister, if we can go to clause 6, which inserts 13A. I touched on this a bit more than I should in my general comments, but I would like to go back to it. You used terminology that the public authority is obligated to go back to the requester if the time frame exceeds the appropriate …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Sorry, Mr. Chairman.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I did forget one thing.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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In clause 16—
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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—it says here, “[(3)] The Minister may, by regulations subject to the negative resolution procedure, make such transitional and saving pro-vision as the Minister considers necessary or expedient . . .”. Then if we go to the [principal] Act itself on page 29, at the bottom there, in the Miscellaneous section, it says, “The affirmative resolution procedure applies to regulations …
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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—as to whether it is a negative or positive resolution. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be brief.
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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I just want to also congratulate Mr. Swan. I do support this. Thank you, Mr. Swan, for being extremely patient, but you are finally there. I trust that one of those events annually will be on the old Guy Fawkes holiday—
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Well, actually it was not a holiday. But, you know — [Laughter]
29 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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—one of those childhood memories that are just a memory because we did not know how to behave ourselves on that day. But again, congratulations. I look forward to seeing your show. And like the previous speaker [said], it is an enhancement to activities that are available on Island, for not only our tourists but locals as well. Thank you.
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to know, the Minister mentioned that since 2020 there has been an accumulating backlog of about 800 registration cases. Would the Minister be able to advise whether these include purchases by non- Bermudians?
15 Nov 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, I have a supplementary.