 Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I must first indicate to the member for Kashi's office that I think he did very good with time considering how lengthy this bill is. Mr. Speaker, it's a deputy speaker. I must indicate that there are very many progressive elements in this bill, a lot of them, but I think there is quite a few areas that are concerning and obviously over time the department, the minister will hear from the stakeholders as to how some of these things will affect their business going forward. As he mentioned during the closing part of his contribution, the member indicated one of them for example was the high cost of living, high cost of doing business in St. Lucia. I'm very happy that that came to the fore because I remember in a previous life one of the things that was looked at very critically when trying to assist some of these entities was the ability to manage some of these high costs of utilities, particularly electricity. But there's something Mr. Speaker and I should confess that I will not be very long in my delivery, but there's something that concerns me and the minister or the member rather for Kashi's south spoke in several ways towards the issue but he never really hit it and I'm referring to the environment as to the merits and the merits of various stakeholders and how they can be rewarded and how they can be also penalized. I remember Mr. Deputy Speaker what 35 years ago when I first visited the UK and I remember going to one of these fast food outlets and my cousin who took me to the to the outlet indicated to me that one of the laws regulating these entities was that they were obligated to keep a certain circumference around the building clean and neat and tidy and ensure that any wrappers or boxes or anything with their logo could not be seen within that circumference or they would be they would be penalized they would be charged and so long ago Mr. Speaker that has always stuck with me as it relates to how various corporate entities get away with so much in our small in our small island and while you may visit some of our hotels that are right on the beachfront and you will say wow an immaculate beach because they have people taking care of the immediate surroundings. I think we need to go a step further in rewarding some of these particularly the larger stakeholders where they can adopt a beach that's not necessarily next to the place of operations and have a crew every now and then you know to go and address the environment and not necessarily beach it but you know a couple of miles away from their business and they could get points they could get merits for that I think it's you know we should kind of hone it into the environment in some of the the merits that we would want some of these stakeholders to address because we cannot just have the the entity taking care of the immediate surroundings and so many other areas in St. Lucia when our visitors go to you know they see it as so untidy and one of the things you know maybe they should also encourage programs and not just speak to keeping St. Lucia clean for tourists but for ourselves you know and I spoke about it in our last sitting we must endanger a feeling of pride in our community in our people and a lot more needs to happen now more than ever the young people growing up to create that sort of spirit of pride we celebrate in 45 years this year of independence and sometimes people still feel it's okay you know because it's not in my backyard I can just throw something out of a vehicle so I thought that maybe the whole issue of incorporating the upkeep of our environment not necessarily in the immediate surroundings of these stakeholders that we speak to should somehow be incorporated into the whole legislation to encourage that sort of behavior and education for our people that being said Mr. Devin I thank you