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The Hon. Zane De Silva, JP, MP

The Hon. Zane De Silva, JP, MP

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27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay. When the positions are filled, once the redundancies have been made and the positions have been refilled, one, will the new House of Assembly employees have union representation? And two, would the chief executive officer, who is responsible in [clause] 6(3) for . . . One of the things he is respons ible for is discipline. So, will that …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chai rman. House of Assembly I just have a question for the Minister. Mini ster, the successful applicants, will they be listed as they are successful, whether it be weekly, monthly, semi -annually?
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, actually I will tell you where I would like to start tonight, or this morning, or this af-ternoon, Mr. Speaker, is . . . we just finished talking about drugs and forming a Joint Select Committee to deal with and discuss and make plans for good go vernance with regard to drugs. Mr. Speaker, …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Drugs, I mean, the use of drugs —
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes, during . . . on the construction site.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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On the construction site, Mr. Speaker —
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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So Mr. Speaker, I bring that up because the concern is quite large as to what is happening there. And I say, I bring that up because it was brought to my attention, but I ask that the Minister of Health and Seniors certainly look into this and r eport back to this House. Because you will know that we …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, another shock to me (as I am sure it was to you) [occurred when] I opened up the paper on Wednesday —that is the Royal Gazette paper —and I saw a headline “MP’s comments not exactly honour able.” And Mr. Speaker, the Honourable Minister, Mr. Sylvan Richards, appa rently made some comments in the House last week that …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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—the Honourable Member, very Honourable Member, indeed, Kenneth Bascome. Mr. Speaker, he spoke to former workers down at the St. George’s club and he told them they were doing a good job. So I thank him for that. Cer-tainly he is an area MP and he had his eye on the ball. So thank Kenny for giving him, giving the …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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yes, they reached out to the Premier. “I made contact by e- mail with Premier Craig Cannonier, who also felt something was amiss and promised to look into it, and possibly put them in touch with the Minister Sylvan Richards.” [Inaudible interjections]
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I am reading from the G azette , yes, I am. [Inaudible interjection]
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I said that from the begi nning. I am reading from the Gazette a letter to the ed itor . . . signed— [Inaudible interjection]
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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—signed by Jeremy Smith. House of Assembly So Mr. Speaker, I ask . . . and one of the things he finishes off in his letter is that “To this day (4 months later), I have yet to receive a response.” Now this is a Government and a Premier that constantly talks about creating jobs and looking out for the …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Oh, yes, that is right. —a very concerned individual, Mr. Speaker, very concerned. Mr. Speaker, employees at the hospital are being given ultimatums. Now, listen to this one. Now this is from a Government that talks about jobs, jobs, transparency, looking after the people. I got a very distressed call last night. The person has been given an ultimatum —you …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I will leave it to the Minister to do her work and report back to this House. B ecause you all were laughing. you all are laughing, but I got a call from a very stressed person, crying, wonder-ing about what they are going to do. given an ultim atum—you take this redundancy package or you take an almost 20 …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Point of order. Hon. Patricia J. Gordon- Pamplin: Or you may not have been on holiday.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, she said I took a two -week vacation and I did not. Hon. Patricia J. Gordon- Pamplin: —I may have—
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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No sir. Hon. Patricia J. Gordon -Pamplin: Okay.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, that is out of order.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay. Hon. Patricia J. Gordon -Pamplin: I do apologise. I just made the assumption that the Minister was on vacation and that was the wrong thing to do. I do apologise. I withdraw the comment. The Minister was not in the House for two weeks for whatever his purposes were, and these things happen. There are times that we have …