I made the following speech on behalf of the Public Accounts Committee during the debate on public sector reform in September 2015. Sir, I will begin by speaking on behalf of the Public Accounts Committee and then I have a few comments speaking on my own behalf. Sir, on behalf…
I raised various concerns about the new machinery government structure in general debate on the second policy letter. My speech is set out below. Sir, I’d like to follow up on the speech I made yesterday where I spoke about the considerable change that will arise from the recommendations of…
I laid a successful amendment against the policy letter that meant that, instead of delaying a review of the power and resources required by the new Scrutiny Management Committee until its formation in May 2016, that this should be done by the current scrutiny committees. My speech is below. Sir, Whilst I…
After deadlock in negotiations over public sector pension changes, the Policy Council went to the States recommending that the scheme changes be made that went back to its first proposals. This was an unprecedented move and there was considerable concern about what would happen should changes be forced through on…
I spoke in relation to report into the Airport terminal project on behalf of the Public Accounts Committee at the December 2014 States meeting. Sir, I will speak specifically in relation to the Public Accounts Committee’s involvement in this report. Those members who were around during the last States will…
I made the following speech in relation to the requete on Island Wide Voting in July 2014. Sir, like many here I’ve always favoured an element of Island Wide Voting. However, I can’t find myself supporting the requete as the system adopted I believe would be completely unworkable and, perversely,…
I laid successful amendments against the States Review Committee’s proposals for changes to the machinery of government. These focused around the new proposals for the scrutiny function, which I did not believe would be effective. In particular, one dealt with the financial scrutiny function requiring a standing committee and the…
I spoke in the adjourned January 2014 States meeting on the proposed waste strategy. I also managed to get the States to agree not to debate an amendment that would have caused extra work for the Public Services Department and voted against a Sursis to look again at landfill. Whilst…
I was delighted to be appointed to the Constitutional Investigation Committee at the January 2014 States meeting. The CIC is mandated to; 1. Review Guernsey’s relationships with the government of the United Kingdom. As part of its review it will consider; a. The method of granting Royal Sanction of primary…