Speeches by Susan E. Jackson

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes. Will the Transport Minister just explain to us that payment processes then? So when you pay with your credit card through the Shorelink app, is that money processed through a local company? Can you explain that?

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes. So would the Minister be willing to name how that money is being transitioned through? Are we using a local company to process the payments through this app? If he could just explain that, please.

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too would like to get up and applaud the Minister for getting this amalgamation across the finish line, and I certainly would like to commend the management and staff of both BLDC and in particular WEDCO for having been able to bring this together and hopefully move forward with integrity and a responsibility for a …

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have a question on [clause] 3(1) where it says that all of the assets, liabilities and functions of the BLDC are transferred to the West End Development Corporation. Just wondering whether the Minister might be able to give us an indication of assets in the form of whether the budgeting and that sort of …

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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Thanks.

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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And I too rise with a very, very heavy heart. But I wanted to follow on from the Minister of Education to the next level. And that is seeing our young people enter into the working world and entrepreneurship. And as the Shadow [Minister] of Transport, I have learned and experienced and been exposed to young people who have come …

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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But certainly, we need to take a look at it. And Mr. Speaker, it is not just transport. I am looking at it from a transport perspective and the fact that the news item was certainly Island: GO!, which is a foreign . . . it seems to be a foreign- created app. It was not a locally created app. …

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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—or mental health.

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes. Thank you. And I did not realise that I was hitting a soft spot there. [Inaudible interjections]

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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I thought that we were speaking about people — [Inaudible interjections]

12 Jul 2024 House of Assembly

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—and ecommerce that we do not know anything about. And, Mr. Speaker, I do not know much, although I am shadowing Health, but it could be the same with Health, where we may have professionals who are delivering mental health services and support, which is something that is very important for us right now, and for all we know we …

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Good morning, Madam Chairman. My only question would be to ask the Minister why she had chosen to make this amendment?

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes, I have a question. Good morning, Mr. Speaker.

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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When a person makes that payment for a particular parking ticket, will there be any notification of additional outstanding parking tickets that a person may have? I know that there are a lot of people out there who may have 10, 15, 60 outstanding parking tickets. Will this system pick that up and notify the payee at the time?

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes, please.

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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So if a person does not pay their parking ticket, is that a manual enforcement to chase after the unpaid parking ticket? Or is there any . . .you know, what happens if you just do not pay your ticket anyway?

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would just like to send condolences to the family of Frances Kast. She lived 102 years in Ber-muda. She was not in my constituency. She was in Southampton. But her son, Harry Kast, is a member of my constituency. And I send condolences to him and his fam ily at this very sad time. Although …

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good afternoon.

28 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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I just have a few questions that I would like to ask the Minister. Generally, we are cer-tainly all in favour of the electrification of vehicles in Bermuda and agree with the Minister in the reduction of emissions, et cetera. So the idea that we will have more electrification on the Island is certainly a welcome and a positive move. …