Speeches by Scott Pearman, MP

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Correct, Mr. Speaker. The goal would be to know and to receive a response from the Premier like, It is fixed. It is working.

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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I would be grateful to have that answer. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Hang on, hang on, he asked me to produce— excuse me.

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Excuse me, Mr. Speaker, the Premier has asked me to substantiate a factual question, and I am doing so. The approach was made to me yesterday by a constituent. I went online myself and I sought to do what the constituent indicated had not been able to be done, which is to type in into the bar the actual ticket …

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Point of order, Mr. Speaker! Hon. E. David Burt: And, Mr. Speaker, if he wanted to state that there — Hon. L. Craig Cannonier: Point of order, Mr. Speaker, point of order.

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Honourable Member, and I thank him for his answer, but he is [imputing] an improper motive by suggesting that I failed intentionally to clarify. I asked a question. He said he had no awareness of the answer and would look into it. I thanked him, and yo u directed him to respond, and I …

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, very much, Madam Acting Speaker [sic]. [Inaudible interjection]

11 Jul 2025 House of Assembly

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[Madam] Chairman, yes. Thank you, Minister. Minister, with apologies, I didn’t actually hear your original presentation and the brief and it may be you have answered my one question during your presentation. But in terms of the change to the regulation that is anticipated, whic h will now be under the negative resolution procedure rather than the affirmative, are there …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thanks to the Honourable Minister Lightbo urne for her Statement to this Honourable House this morning on Bermuda’s cost of living and survey insights and plans for this C ost of Living Summit. With your leave, Mr. Speaker, I would just like to quote two points from the Statement. It was said to this Honourable …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Yes, yes, supplementary, please. Thank you, Honourable Minister. If I understood you correctly, the answer you gave to the one most important reform to bring down the cost of living was collaboration with the private sector ?

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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No, n o further questions , thanks.

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Supplementary with your leave,

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Does that mean, Minister, that the current 25 submissions will be remaining on the table for the committee to consider over the next 10 years or not? Hon. Owen Darrell: Mr. Speaker, the way the Act is laid out, in 10 years’ time, new applications will be received and new submissions will be considered. And if individuals who submitted these …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker , and good afternoon. I would like to pass along congratulations to the Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (CURB) for the event that they put on a little bit ago— [Inaudible interjection]

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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—and I'll get there to associate , well I will associate the whole House, but let me also just note that they put on the memorial event for Dr. Eva Hodgson at the Cathedral . It was an excellent event . I was privileged to be there together with Senator Victoria Cunningham from another place and also, we had the …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Right. Thank you, Mr. Speaker .

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chair man and good afternoon to you. I have a question in relation to clause 3 . The Honourable Premier and Finance Minister indicated in relation to clause 3 [new section 15 ( 3A)(b)] that future rules made by the BMA pursuant to this amendment Act will not be subject to parliamentary scrutiny. And I was just …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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I thank the Honourable Premier and Finance Minister for those answers. In relation to the second answer, so clause 4 has a deeming provision that things have already been validly made. And I understand your answer that you just gave, Honourable Premier and Finance Minister. But my question is, are we just having the deeming provision generically so it is …

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chair man, and thank you for that answer.

13 Jun 2025 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker , and thank you. So, let me pick up where my colleague left off and just say my thanks as well to the technical staff who are present in the Chamber today, including the Registrar General Mr. Pennyman who I see over there. Let me also just declare my interest. I am at Conyers, which is …