IMBERT VS HOSEIN ON PM PENSION BILL

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The Government insists that even if an MP has served as Prime Minister for less than a year but has served in the Cabinet during that time, the person will still receive a pension.  This, as one Opposition MP says the Prime Minister's Pension Amendment Bill is evidence of a galloping dictatorship.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, I also notice that this government is not engaged in a creeping dictatorship,

00:08it's engaged in a galloping dictatorship.

00:13Opposition MP and former Finance Minister Colm Inbut as he contributed to the debate

00:18in the House of Representatives of the bill for amendments to the Prime Minister's Pensions Act.

00:22This morning, today, I understand that all CPEP contractors, all 300 of them, I believe

00:36is the number, some number like that, 11,000, how many people?

00:43Over 10,000 people have been put on the bread line by this wicked and shameless government.

00:5248-1, 48-1, 48-1.

01:00That is wholly and extraordinarily irrelevant to the issue that is being put on the house.

01:06After House Speaker Jack Deo Singh's intervention, MP Imbert returned to the Prime Minister's

01:11Pension Amendment Bill.

01:12But Mr. Speaker, this legislation is evidence of a galloping dictatorship.

01:19They fire the Governor, the central bank. They fire all the managers at Watson. They fire all the civil contractors.

01:29The bill before the House has nothing to do with the termination of contracts, workers,

01:47employees, or anything of the sort.

01:50The House Speaker ruled those statements by the Digo Martin Northeast MP to have been irrelevant.

01:55Later in the debate, Barataria San Juan MP Saddam Hussein, the Minister of Legal Affairs,

02:00gave a direct response to MP Imbilt.

02:02What we are proposing in the legislation, Mr. Speaker, is that the person must have served in the office

02:08for at least one year in order to become illegible for the pension.

02:14Minister Hussein told the Governmental Line that no former Prime Minister would be left penniless.

02:20If a member has not served for the one year in order to be entitled to a pension,

02:28but the member may have served in the Cabinet as a minister or a legislator as defined by the law,

02:34which is an MP who is elected, that person will be entitled to a pension under the Retiring Allowance Legislative Services Act.

02:47So it is totally misleading for the member for Digo Martin Northeast to say that people will be deprived of an income.

02:54The opposition has indicated the matter could end up before the courts.

02:58Jewel Brown, TV6 News.

03:01Jewel Brown, TV6 News.

03:03How will it be devenus'

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