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Scott Simmons, JP, MP

Scott Simmons, JP, MP

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30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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No, I am here now.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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I'm here now.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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And Mr. Speaker, with the greatest of respect to my colleague, who I have a lot of respect for, I'm asking the Honourable Member to with-draw his comment as it relates to his colleagues. He is imputing improper motive. He does not know why his colleagues are not in this House at this particular time. It is a known fact …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I'm not going to speak for 20 minutes. I'm not even going to keep the Honourable Members in this House who have gone through an entire Budget Debate, who have spent the time in this House. Mr. Speaker, I just wanted to offer clarification on this particular point. Primarily because, like many of our colleagues who are not …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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I take that back, Mr. Speaker.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Okay, he doesn't own it. I will take that back.
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I take the Honourable Member’s point of information as well as his point of order. Mr. Speaker , as far as I am concerned, and I want to make sure that this is clear and I appreciate his clarification and the clarification of the Learned Member. The one thing that I want to be clear on, because I …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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I apologise, recommends. Then we have a responsibility to look at that. And also, Mr. Speaker, I want to allay the concerns of those in the public who feel as though, when pictures were taken of individuals falling asleep in the other House, that there are individuals who are not doing their job. And they may feel that their MP, …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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—As the Honourable Deputy Speaker stated, our civic duty, and that we need not displace the dignity of that by making statements that can be misinterpreted and that may create the feeling that they are not getting bang for buck . I believe we have demonstrated that in the last Budget Debate. I believe the new Members who continue to …
30 May 2025 House of Assembly
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—with every person in this House, is that we may disagree and that we may rise to our feet. But , Mr. Speaker, in this House we will represent the views of our people. We will admit if we are wrong. We will admit if we are incorrect. But we expect that individuals will themselves rise up and say : …
21 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Good morning, Madam Deputy Speaker. Good morning, colleagues. Madam Deputy Speaker, I rise in this Honourable House to ask that condolences be appropriately sent to the former Chief Inspector , Mr. Hilton Wingood. I ask that if we haven't —
21 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Very well. I will associate myself , if you have already seen to it. But Madam Deputy 744 21 May 2025 Official Hansard Report B ermuda House of Assembly Speaker, I had the opportunity of going to his service, which was held just in the early part of this week. It was a wonderful service. I had the opportunity of …
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My apologies, my microphone. There we go. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good morning and morning colleagues or good afternoon. I wish to start first by where the Honourable Member left off and that is to thank Mr. David Sabir and to congratulate him on that and for his contribution given to our community of sport …
21 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If you would not mind, Mr. Speaker, I would just like to be associated with the condolences that have already been sent to [the family of] Mr. George Burch, a faithful member of the Hamilton Seventh- day Adventist Church. I remember as a young man that Mr. Burch taught the Summer School class, and he also …
21 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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I w ould, Mr. Speaker, thank you.
21 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speak er, I will begin where the Honourable Member just left off. But before I do, I would like to take the opportunity to commend the Honourable Member and to mention the time that he has put in on the Caribbean connection throughout our entire group in the work that he has done. I think it is important. We …
21 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you. It says a lot about our Government. And I do believe that here is a lot of work to be done in that space and that is the reason why we are here in this House today discussing Throne Speech 2025. Mr. Speak er, let’s be clear. The election is over. It is over. The voters have spoken. …
21 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Honourable Minister. I do not wish to overstress this, or to stress out my colleagues. But I will make this clear. I believe it is important for us to be mindful of that. But it does not preclude us from governing. Mr. Speaker, as a result of that I have made a recommitment on how I manage my …
21 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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I realise it is 25 [ minutes ] to 11:00. [Laughter]
21 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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I am saying that the people of Bermuda expect that we will — [Laughter and general uproar]