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Susan E. Jackson

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31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Okay, great. Thank you.
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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That was my preamble.
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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So my question to the Minister, getting from 433,000- odd seats that we are presently at up to the sort of 661,000 or 600,000 that we had before the COVID -19 pandemic, could he maybe just give us an indication of where we see that there are still gaps to be filled in air capacity? Thank you.
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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No further questions. Thank you. [Pause] Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Members, there are no further questions. Mr. Whip, would you come see me for a minute, though, please? Thank you. There are no further questions to Statements this morning. So we will now move on, on the Order Paper. CONGRATULATORY AND/OR OBITUARY SPEECHES
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On a very sad note, I would like to send condolences to the family of Gwendolyn Brunson. She was the mother of a former Member of Parliament, Jon Brunson, and he sat in this Chamber. And he certainly has provided us with his public service and was raised by Gwendolyn, who was quite the entertainer. She …
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker. I am quite frankly quite disappointed because I have been following our protections, in particular around information technology, for a while. And to be quite honest with you, all the way back to 2017 I was quite enthralled to see that we had a Premier and we had a new administration coming in that was IT …
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, they gave us an assessment. They wrote out pages and pages of recommendations. And one of the questions I would like to ask the Minister, because apparently . . . and I am not quite sure what this means, but they gave us a maturity . How mature is our system? I think. I wrote it down somewhere. …
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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If you even remotely think there might be something that is not recognisable to you as a worker, you can raise all kinds of alarm bells. The private sector has been at it for years. Digicel, 2021, had all of the professional expertise come to Bermuda and set them up. Who are we as this Government who has got a …
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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—that they might have—
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Sure. I will use six and a half if that makes him feel better. [Laughter and inaudible interjections ]
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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It makes no difference to me. It is late! Bermuda House of Assembly [Inaudible interjections]
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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It is late! [Inaudible interjections]
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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It is late! And to be honest with you, the private entities out there in Bermuda are looking at us and probably laughing. [Inaudible interjections]
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Laughing! Sure private entities have had cyberattacks and have them all the time. I have been working in . . . I mean, it happens all the time! Yes, I am sorry, our systems have gone down right now . But you know what? They know how to get you back up and running right away. Why? Because they are …
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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We had . . . we paid no attention to this. What was this? Some kind of national Gov-ernment arrogance that you would just not even con-sider the fact that you needed to protect your infrastructure? And now look where we are. There are still members of our Government, ci vil servants who cannot even open up emails because they …
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes. As soon as we get it open. Mr. Speaker, one of the Ministers or two ago who took their seat said that all of this is with good intentions. I would like to add to that. Good intentions are seeds of good deeds. All right? Good intentions. But they need to be watered with action and perseverance. And to …
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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There is not even the legislation, so says a Member. And so we are sitting here now, behind the eight ball, trying to catch up with a piece of legislation that was basically written for them back in 2018 and trying to catch up. And then on top of it trying to catch up, and then pass the big boys, …
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker.
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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I am not speaking about the cyberattack. I am speaking about the fact that we did not have the legislation in place to start to protect our infrastructure.
31 May 2024 House of Assembly
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And they are able to recover. Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Oh, no they are not. And I can speak from experience. So don’t go there with me. Private sector companies get attacked too. And sometimes, guess what? They don’t recover.