 Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. Good afternoon to colleagues and persons who are glued to the television sets and whatever other devices that they may be using watching the proceedings across the diaspora. Mr. Speaker, it is with a feeling of utmost confidence, one of fulfillment of total accomplishment that I stand in this honourable house to make my contribution to this discourse on the estimates of 2024-2025. It is an emotion which has every ounce of support I can probably muster, Mr. Speaker, and the estimates which prove beyond any doubt that this good country of ours is being managed far better than what obtained between 2016 and 2021. Within that period, Mr. Speaker, I dare say we were on a path of financial destruction, but before delving into what the business of the day is, Mr. Speaker, I am confronted with the compunction to take a cursory glance at some peripheral issues that from time immemorial have guided the proceedings of this August chamber within the confines of which ought to be the emphatic supposition that this chamber contains honourable men and women. Please permit me to do so, Mr. Speaker, as your indulgence is craved in that regard. We were here on Tuesday, Mr. Speaker, Tuesday morning to be exact, and the Standing Finance Committee met to review the estimates. The evening that ensued, the Prime Minister delivered his address, an address which in a nutshell was an extraction from the estimates with which we were provided at least eight credits before. I will go further to say, Mr. Speaker, that there was absolutely nothing said by the Prime Minister that could not have been found in the estimates. So the question as to why you need the Prime Minister's speech to rebut a book that you had in your possession for eight days just cannot seem to find justification in my mind. But you know, Mr. Speaker, when we expect honourable men to follow a custom, like the leader of the opposition responding immediately after the Prime Minister, when that is breached, anything can be breached. In fact, we've grown accustomed, Mr. Speaker, of things no longer being accustomed inside of this house. For five years, this house operated without a deputy speaker, Mr. Speaker. When this house first convened after the general election of 2016, the question was asked to the then Prime Minister, why was this blatant transgression of the constitution, which mandates that parliament is convened within 30 days after the holding of a general election. A certain degree of sarcasm, he responded that the constitution led no sanctions. And this is the environment, Mr. Speaker, in which we operate. But all of a sudden, Mr. Speaker, all of a sudden, certain persons have become constitutional experts. They have become constitutional experts because it suits the narrative so to do. But this is hypocrisy of the highest order. Mr. Speaker, there is a Latin term that goes named that non-quad habit. It basically means that one cannot give and for purposes of the estimates, one cannot spend what he or she does not have. And as we navigate the figures contained in the estimates, Mr. Speaker, and others prior, because you see it is necessary to juxtapose the estimates of today to the estimates of yesterday, because yesterday's behavior is what determines what happens today. And so, Mr. Speaker, as we navigate the estimates of this year and other financial years prior, a very and extremely promising picture is painted for the future of this great country of ours. Mr. Speaker, if we take a look at our recurrent expenditure for a number of years and compare with our recurrent revenue for those years, you will see a very gloomy picture painted between 2016 and 2021. And from there on, when the driver of this economic truck was changed or economic car was changed, you will see a closure in the gap and a much, much better performance. Mr. Speaker, as the estimates will show and I will point you to, this country is undoubtedly on the path of recovery. The country is beginning to breathe a sigh of relief, relief that was very much needed and to illustrate, Mr. Speaker, the estimates of this upcoming financial year, we will look at it and juxtapose, like I said, Mr. Speaker, to have a better or full understanding of the mismanagement that occurred between 2016 and 2021. And the path of recovery on which the country found itself when there was this glorious day on our calendar labeled July 26, 2021. Mr. Speaker, I can go as far back as the financial year 2016-2017. And I want you to listen carefully, Mr. Speaker. 2016-2017, our recurrent revenue was $1.04 billion, while our recurrent expenditure was $1.08 billion, a shortfall, Mr. Speaker, of $43 million. Financial year 2017-2018, our recurrent revenue, Mr. Speaker, was $1.073 billion, while our recurrent expenditure increased to $1.15 billion. Again, a shortfall of $78 million of recurrent expenditure over recurrent revenue. Mr. Speaker, we go to the financial year of 2018-2019. The country generated $1.69 billion in revenue. But again, for that very year, there was an increase in recurrent expenditure to $1.268 billion, further widening the deficit gap between revenue and expenditure. That gap, Mr. Speaker, by 2018-2019, a mere two years after the last government assumed office had almost increased by $100 million. Yes, Mr. Speaker, that was what they were doing. They were spending much more than they were making. And I remember they were saying, Mr. Speaker, don't talk to so-and-so because he spends money like a child that has never seen toys. I wouldn't quote the author, neither would I quote whoever that statement was targeted at. But Mr. Speaker, let us go to 2019-2020. The country, and this is very, very instructive, because for too many times I have heard persons hide under the guise of COVID. I have heard all sorts of excuses being preferred because of the bad economic performance. No one dared to challenge the mismanagement of the then prime minister. Everybody took homage to shelter. COVID was basically the shield from mismanagement of this country. Mr. Speaker, the year 2019-2020 is instructive in that regard. In 2019-2020, the country made even more money than it made in 2018-2019. Okay. Gouvernor Fepli Lajan. At 2019-2020, lande yoka di Latin COVID-La. If Fepli Lajan passing any other. But guess what, Mr. Speaker? The country made 1.15 billion dollars. However, under the last minister of finance, expenses grew every year. And so our current expenditure had risen from 1.268 billion from the previous year to 1.344 billion. Leaving us, Mr. Speaker, with a shortfall of 190 million dollars. My ladies and gentlemen. My ladies and gentlemen. We are talking about Pumye Katlania. That Mam Mikusov. It was Pumye Minis. Ladies and gentlemen, our lande yoka di Pasepli. We are talking about Pumye Katlania. We are talking about Pumye Katlania. We are talking about Pumye Katlania. This country made even more money than it made in 2019-2020. It made even more money than 200 million dollars. Mr. Speaker. Let me pause here because they'll tell you 2019-2020 was when COVID hit. Mr. Speaker, nothing can be further from the truth in terms of performance of 2019-2020. You have a gap of $200 million but COVID Mr. Speaker, we must not forget our financial year runs from the first of April to March 31st. So 2019-2020 run from April 1st 2019 to March 31st 2020. In that year we generated the most revenue. COVID hit yuan China in December of 2019 and we had no introduction to COVID not almost at the close of the 2019-2020 financial year. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $200 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $200 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $200 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $200 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $200 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $200 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $200 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $200 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. Living a gap of almost $500 million. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. So the question is Mr. Speaker, what accounted for that $190 million before COVID? I need to know. That's what we need to know. How can you fix an economy when you pay a man $40,000 to cut one tree? How can you fix an economy Mr. Speaker, when you pay a man in March at $12,500 to hang a door? $12,500 to put up a door? $40,000 to cut a tree at the comprehensive school? You know, earlier on Mr. Speaker, he called on us to make sacrifices. But that is the same man who was spending $2,000 a night. $2,000 a night as a matter of fact. I said let me show it Mr. Speaker if you don't mind. Show me the $2,000 a night bill. Not the bills please. Yes, the bills. Let's go to it. Okay, that's the total bill. Show them the total bill. Okay, the total, you can zoom in please. Total bill, $13,000. Show them the nights. I will make it a document now. Show them the nights. Can you zoom that out? Look at them. One, two nights each night, $2,154. Show the back page. Look at the three nights each night, $2,150. And show the last page again to see whose name is on the bill again, the $30,000. Right. Show them the name at the top for me please. Please zoom out. Show them the score. Right. Whose name you see there? Not mine. That's not my name. That's the same man asking us to make sacrifices Mr. Speaker, $2,154. The tax, the total is $13,000 for six nights at the time the point was $5, $65,000 for six nights. You know, you could take it down Brenda. And you are now asking us to make sacrifices. $2,000. And you know the worst thing, when the prime minister indicated that earlier, he said you just say things without evidence. You know, say things without evidence. $2,154 a night. The county is not a panacea. It costs $65,000 for six nights. You know, I don't want to save money. You don't want to save money, but you should pay the tax. And you know, you come in inside of there. This one suffers Mr. Speaker, permit me to make this word. tawa sticks tong I call it hyster undermine you know基本 guilt you know you know he's about travel you know be Mr. Speaker I can see it is it సాసిందింపిరంరంసిట్. ఇరికిచోటికాటెరంా కిర్తికి. నిరహ్ంనునికికొవక్. పిబిగాఝవవనండిండిపిసూపిమనికటియంకసా.  sabor アクタ  salon  Rivers  mas  track ンダキ engage  Tan you know mr speaker when you live in a glass house you don't throw stones that was the man who was prime minister in his cabinet his entire cabinet took a decision to sell to a member of cabinet government land at 69 cents a square foot he is the same prime minister who's chairman of nsc got land in marigord less than two dollars a square foot he is the same prime minister who permitted the then member for castry south is to put land on his sister's name at vg i'm not asking i'm telling you mr speaker and i can show the deeds and make them documents of the house you don't play with fire you don't play with fire and then has the audacity to say that the diamond was a good move because we're getting rent for four dollars a square foot you know we had our mall mr speaker we spent the mall was bought when the member from for castry's north was prime minister we spent 52 million dollars on the mall at the time the mall was valued at 60 million you sold it for less than a quarter of the value try the government hands for 16 and a half years at over a million dollars a month with a cumulative rent payment of over 200 million dollars and then turn around and tell the people of sinusha you give them a good deal you give them a good deal i want to buy gables wood bought the same way gable woods mall i want to buy it you know and that is the audacity of this gentleman mr speaker that is the audacity of this gentleman car bought what land the dollar and acre a solution bought land two point something acres for 2.7 million dollars the audacity of this man mr speaker but mr speaker let me let me go on i can see mr speaker without fair of contradiction that for every year the member for miku south who seemingly pointificates on the altar of knowledge a financial guru under his watch every single year our recurrent revenue was far less than our recurrent expenditure which increased every year the expenditure increased every year under his watch and the gap widened when he left it almost 500 million dollars difference mr speaker and he has the audacity to see mr speaker that he did he did well he did well and you know mr speaker a lot of the things that caused that design finance construct giving the asses all over the place principal payments to be made every three months interest every month every month sorry doubling our rental expense which is a recurrent expenditure he got it at 30 million dollars dropped it at almost 70 million a year including five of his is from his father mr speaker and has the audacity to say he was fixing the economy and we need to make sacrifices mr speaker but that was what st lucer was going through under his watch and had we remained along that trajectory mr speaker by now st lucer would have been sold to the devil if we had remained that way st lucy they haven't by them and mind you mr speaker whilst you know look at this you know mr speaker the month to consultants paying them 15 million or so a year to teach him how to widen the deficit gap you mean you need a consultant to tell you you should have taken a housewife to help you prepare a budget every housewife in this country knows that when you have five hundred dollars you know a bag of sugar is this and this is that lucy like is this that is that and they can budget mr speaker within the limitation of the monies that they have you needed one of the single murders that he called he called whatever he called them he needed one of them to give him a lesson in economics mr speaker that's what you need that's what you need now mr speaker the right honorable prime minister member for castries east took over the navigational economic car or apparatus or fair helen on july 26 this financial year is the only financial year crafted and presented by the prime minister in other words when we came in the budget of 2021 2022 had been prepared we inherited a budget it was not that of the member for castries east his first budget crafted by himself with the use of civil servants who know applied who are bond solutions whose tenacity i admire wanted to stand by the prime minister and to show some resolve that what we were not permitted to do you have now given us the latitude to do it let us help you prepare budget mr speaker you will not believe if we look at the numbers of 2023 2024 what they are mr speaker the estimates of 2023 2024 which the current prime minister had full control over the recurrent revenue his first the first estimates the first budget budget crafted by this prime minister the recurrent revenue mr speaker was 1.25 billion dollars while there was a significant reduction in recurrent expenses to 1.24 billion dollars in his first budget he was able to his revenue surpass his expenses i believe this prime minister deserves a round of applause yes mr speaker you know come in yes mr speaker that is what it is and the books are there so when a man tells you that he is a guru economical otherwise let the numbers tell a tale and so mr speaker in the first budget of this honorable prime minister there was a savings there was a savings of about four billion dollars something that the former prime minister never achieved and then mr speaker 2023 2024 expenditure 1.3 billion revenue 1.375 billion in his second year this prime minister not only close the gap and surpassed it by he surpassed it by some 75 million dollars that could have gone into capital expenditure mr speaker that is how you judge the management skill of one who has the levers of authority mr speaker and that is how you manage an economy and you know the figures don't lie the figures don't lie mr speaker the figures don't lie you know mr speaker this country was like a car driven by a madman at a high speed towards a precipice of economic disaster and you know the good lord lent a hand mr speaker and caused a change of driver a new driver a more capable driver a more experienced driver and upon being placed in that driver seat he immediately pressed the brake pedal mr speaker stop the dive of this country into economic turmoil turn the car around and now we are driving on a road with utmost stability on the highway of recovery bound for eternal prosperity that's what we are doing now mr speaker under this evil hand mr speaker sen lucha will get there sen lucha will get there mr speaker so when you see the hacks want to debate they will not debate facts they will just go out of the way give me the estimates let's look at the estimates of revenue and expenditure show me your five years i'll show you my five years who manage the economy better that is what we need to know and then they'll tell you kovid you had a deficit from the one by the time kovid came you had a gap of about 200 million dollars in that financial year kovid when kovid came mr speaker it is you take off for avid kovid korl fought by the law you know and the facts are there i'm not making them up am not making them up mr speaker i'm not making them up mr speaker i cannot none of us can take how much time i've left mr speaker 45 minutes 28 ever that's 45 okay very good yeah okay mr Mr. Speaker, I cannot and none of us can take our various allocations as per the estimates and expound on all of them. We can't. Time does not permit that. But I will select some of the allocations worthy of mention Mr. Speaker. Some of them I want to deal with Mr. Speaker. And they are the allocation to proud, the allocation for cemetery expansion, the allocation for the rehabilitation of human resources, and the allocation of the housing assistance program among others. Mr. Speaker, when this government assumed office, I was inundated with calls from contractors Mr. Speaker, who we had not contracted, who basically I knew absolutely nothing about them with Mr. Speaker. But having assumed the portfolio, they want to believe that I am the one who is responsible for payment that would due to them under the proud program, the rehabilitation of unplanned development. And so Mr. Speaker, the calls kept coming. My intervention was being sought. At certain points I felt that I was the one holding back the payments of those persons that I want to make it clear. They had completed their work under the former administration. They were employed and contracted by the former administration. But Mr. Speaker, because I know of the phenomenon that there is continence in governance, I placed the plates on the doorstep of the Honorable Prime Minister. I felt sorry for them. And so I indicated to the Prime Minister who agreed and placed in the budget on the head 0052 three million dollars necessary to pay those contractors who had worked under Flambeau and Flambeau never paid them. So I can tell Mr. Jameson, I can tell Dean Nicholas, I can tell all of those who had been literally humbugging me for payment that I took your case to the Honorable Prime Minister and indicated when I said to him, boss, the guys have outstanding bills total in three million dollars. He said to me, Minister, we must pay the fellows. And he made provision to pay them. So I'm hoping you hand me Jameson, I'm hoping you hand me Dean Nicholas and all the others that were underproud that your money was due since before I was Minister.  элект melod 笄 malfunction ᵃ ᵃ ᵃ ᵃ ᶁ ᵃ ᵃ ᵃ ᵃ is ᵃ ᵃ ᵃ  ᵃ ᵃᵃ ᵃ �媺  Wade   ᵃ ᵃitch  ᵃ ch  � upload   ᵃ ᵃ but guess what the labor party under this honorable prime minister say no we have to pay them and talking about proud mr speaker since we came into office we have empowered over 200 percent lutions by giving them deeds giving them titles to property on which they live giving them a sense of empowerment that they never had in their lives before empowerment that can cause generational changes mr speaker only two weeks ago we handed 19 deeds 19 deeds to persons from various localities mr speaker from across the length and breadth of this island and one of them was very touching mr speaker one of the ladies i handed a deed to was a sanitation worker from view for lord who had given the government and people of st lusia over 30 years in the sanitation department today mr speaker she has a first slice of st lusia she has titled to a piece of land that she can call her own mr speaker mr speaker ironically this lady is from the same jurisdiction the same jurisdiction where at the stroke of a pen a foreigner was given a thousand acres at a dollar and acre for 99 years and i see this mr speaker as a semblance of poetic justice mr speaker i look to my right not immediate right second right and i notice my my colleague from sufre mr speaker when we assumed office and when i say i can say without self contradiction that the member for sufre will beg for her constituency until her needs are met mr speaker on behalf of her people mr speaker that is the admiration i have for my colleague sister and you know she came to cabinet and she said minister i can tell you the government forgave almost a million dollars to forgive the credit union who ended up forgiving the lenders and today people of sufre have landed title to their property as a result of this government through intervention by the rent what more you need what more you need isn't that empowerment mr speaker isn't that empowerment you know mr speaker as i speak and i don't want to be adopting the tomb from the member for view for south for fair that the people have already gone home yes and it's going to five but i can tell you we have over a thousand lots mr speaker in in in labry uge and view for north view for in the in that general over a thousand the over a thousand lots awaiting mutation and eventual transfer to send lutions not too foreign as mr speaker we have an allocation of two points one six million dollars on the head zero three six six on the continuation of the housing repair now you know mr speaker this program is yet another innovative program of this government mr speaker never before had it existed it is a brainchild of this government and when the minister of finance allocate those funds mr speaker you know given the humanitarian bone that seemingly occupy his entire body in bocetan he has to ensure that the allocations are spread across the length and breadth of st lusha in every constituency i think it is a round of a problem because you know the benevolence of the member for castries east is not one you would find in the average man and i'm not sure mr speaker even with my religious virtues and all my principles of forgiveness that i may have exercised such benevolence but again he is a godly character mr speaker and mr speaker mr speaker he has not done like the former prime minister who for the five years between 2016 and 2021 thought the resources of this country were his he thought the resources of the country were his mr speaker and he did not spend one cent and i don't exaggerate if i say one cent not one cent in the other six constituencies that did not support him in fact mr speaker 15 minutes left in fact mr speaker i remember that he was in opposition and it was right here i was watching the proceedings mr speaker and in this chamber the member for castries east lamented why are you only giving us nothing why and the then extremely verbose our minister of economic development at the time the member for castries south is he said for that you're crying you're just that crying i remember that because the member for castries east was saying why are you doing that to our people mr speaker that is the response he got mr speaker you know but today this minister of finance this one with a good heart is not treating the opposition that way mr speaker today we are helping thousands and thousands of solution but guess what mr speaker the member for miku north he takes the house in our location let me show you what he did if it i mean i give you the money to help build houses move less simply see a wakisa mom miku south laugh at the end of miku gadeila but they oblige badly how can you tell me you building that wall a constituent of yours in miku south the allocation of the member for miku south say say baby woman in may or that was a limit that is wickedness mr speaker you might as well give the person a warrant to kill themselves if i mr speaker man like me when i blow i blow her that is down you know and if you compare that to the others built by my colleagues you can show them in the meantime but that is wickedness that is pure wickedness that's denry denry north mr speaker just go ahead with them you know and and and look at the difference mr speaker look at the difference look at the difference mr speaker who really cares about who who cares about who you know who cares about who mr speaker you telling me you have the audacity to give somebody that was a limit and a and a was a limit and these are so kind of the body so so crave chair mr speaker so so crave chair but you know what mr speaker they will not institute any program like that mr speaker you could take it out they will not and they did not and they accuse us of wasting money mr speaker mr speaker when you hear a man talk about we waste money but you know what mr speaker he keeps his when he was prime minister his vehicle was on 24 7 from the time it leaves his house until he returns until he returns and when they ask him why he said he has a problem with his skin show those two pictures for me he has a problem with his skin mr speaker look at what he used to obtain he could not even walk in the sun he needed a police officer to have an umbrella over his head not even walk he could walk in the sun look at that let him take a mashe so let him have a napreel lapani lapni if the police say no power solar let death leave what you say show them what is doing now for me please gasa man who had his vehicle on attack spares explains mr speaker 24 7 that's the same man who could not take the heat because he has a skin condition but today mr speaker he want to show he's like us he wants to show he's like the citizens who foolishly otherwise made him prime minister the same citizens who made him prime minister guess what he barricaded them for five years for five years he didn't want to see them they could not come around parliament and it had to take a man like you mr speaker to say that those barricades don't work with me he had to take a man like you those barricades don't work with me but the people voted for him tomorrow today and tomorrow he don't want to be surrounded by them mr speaker he has an obsession with 15 mr speaker came into office fr 15 yesterday behind a van pb 15 go on the media i want to speak number 15 what did he not see the lever party would give him 15 he had an obsession with 15 mr speaker 15 you know and that is what that that is what we have in this country we have somebody who's parading mr speaker to really do better for this country but parading as though he really truly cares about this country but has wasted our resources wasted our resources asking him about our national dish south and cucumber our national dish mr speaker you know that is south and cucumber you know that is the kind of thing we had mr speaker and mr speaker let me quickly go into and what we saw there behind the van thank you mr speaker i'll wrap up what we saw there there is spousal abuse drug abuse but to have a police officer in a black shoot in a tie behind the van in the hot sun is police abuse that is police abuse and i'm sure he knows that anybody who rides to the back of the vehicle is uninsured but that is his style he pays country god to the lord jumping behind a police motorbike with total impunity mr speaker that is the behavior of this man to do what attract attention mr speaker and mr speaker i want to say we are working hard on the cemeteries hard on the cemeteries started the cemetery in view fort and that cemetery in mon ripo has a story it has a story mr speaker miku north had never voted for the labor party the cemetery in mon ripo went out of commission in 2016 the exact year that the united workers party won the elections mr speaker for five years between 2016 and 2021 not even an iota of intention in terms of preparation was made to have another cemetery commission i can tell you mr speaker the new mb from miku north dragged myself dragged my permanent secretary dragged the commission of crown lands into a meeting and the long and short of it mr speaker is that the mon ripo cemetery is well underway and this financial year we have five million dollars there we are completing phase one of the mon ripo cemetery it will be ready for burial mr that is how you represent people mr speaker for five years no government we got this year approval we got designs approved and the cemetery is has started work is progressing with alakrity you know and then you tell me you care about people you don't care about people you see them as instruments or occupation of a powerful position that's all it is human resource centers mr speaker i have 1.65 million dollars for human resource centers mr speaker mr speaker not even a shit of galvanize he changed right now the building has no roof no windows no doors he got wind mr speaker that the government intends to do something with it two weeks ago he badges into a meeting a council meeting and will tell them that he has 150 000 allocation from cdp and he will use it to repair the digger community center i had to say to them to tell him in terms of policy he cannot dictate to the government of this country which policy direction we go we will listen we may hear but if we decide to extend the community center if we decide to place it elsewhere if we decide to convert this whole derelict building to another institution another to be used for something else you cannot tell us what to do so don't walk into a meeting and say already is operating on the good conscience of the prime minister he has an allocation of a team out here he has an allocation he has an allocation and he will use it to repair remember your five minutes left thank you very much mr speaker so mr speaker those are the kind of things you encounter i will tell him again that the policy direction of this country is not determined by him he was the same one who told this current government that you have lost the right to speak he was the same one who told civil servants don't tell us what to do but today he wanted to dictate policy to us i want to let the member know that he does not know what our intentions are and anybody that goes and intervened government's property without permission they will be arrested in charge for damage to property we need to ensure that things are done in a manner that is in keeping with the protocol of the government of seclusion that is what it is so mr speaker all right i i have loads but you know mr speaker i just want to stay here that my constituency i just love gastro central i have knocked on the doors four times and they have opened the doors one said to me for the upcoming elections the doors are already ajar all you have to do just give it a little nerd and it will be open because i know i am confident they are satisfied with my performance mr speaker mr speaker what the last government did i just want to mention this they wanted to efface my name from the political arena totally obliterate me and they took the renamed serenity park which is my brain child mr speaker took the plaques threw them away because they carried my name and placed the serenity park in the name of george mallet who never represented same who never represented san susi and who never conceptualized serenity park they didn't know how i named the park mr speaker it was named on a competitive basis by all schools participating and a panel of judges choosing a name and they just come see a richard federal advisor but they didn't know that the good lord wanted me back here mr speaker and under the community tourism project i know i will get an allocation for a construction of an amphitheater at serenity park for the people of country central and others but especially the good people of san susi whose roads i am tackling at this time mr speaker with that said obviously i have to cut myself short i want to end with two quotes mr speaker it was michel steele who said we should all be on the side of good governance and protection of taxpayers money and nicolas budgerim said the biggest determinant in lives is culture where you were born and what the environment looked like but the second determinant is probably governance good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in the lives of synductions and i'm sure mr speaker it is quite conspicuous that the lives of every synductions are changing and they have changed drastically ever since this labor party government assume office mr speaker mr speaker i will finally see here george onlam a man who my admired comes to mind and he said mr speaker we know of his renown phrase this country is now on a trajectory of forward ever backward never and that is why it's an average person around this on the side of the government have no choice but to protect the victory for the people of this good country of ours i thank you mr