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P R O C E E D I N G S H O U S E O F K E Y S O F F I C I A L R E P O R T R E C O R T Y S O I K O I L Y C H I A R E A S F E E D P R O C E E D I N G S D A A L T Y N HANSARD Douglas, Tuesday, 25th June 2013 All published Official Reports can be found on the Tynwald website www.tynwald.org.im/Official Papers/Hansards/Please select a year: Reports, maps and other documents referred to in the course of debates may be consulted on application to the Tynwald Library or the Clerk of Tynwald’s Office. Supplementary material subsequently made available following Questions for Oral Answer is published separately on the Tynwald website, www.tynwald.org.im/Official Papers/Hansards/Hansard Appendix Volume 130, No. 23 ISSN 1742-2264 Published by the Office of the Clerk of Tynwald, Legislative Buildings, Finch Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 3PW. © Court of Tynwald, 2013 HOUSE OF KEYS, TUESDAY, 25th JUNE 2013 Present: The Speaker (Hon. S C Rodan) (Garff); The Chief Minister (Hon. A R Bell) (Ramsey); Hon. D M Anderson (Glenfaba); Mr L I Singer (Ramsey); Hon. W E Teare (Ayre); Mr A L Cannan (Michael); Hon. T M Crookall (Peel); Mr P Karran, Mr Z Hall and Mr D J Quirk (Onchan); Mr J R Houghton and Mr R W Henderson (Douglas North); Hon. D C Cretney and Mrs K J Beecroft (Douglas South); Hon. C R Robertshaw and Mrs B J Cannell (Douglas East); Hon. J P Shimmin (Douglas West); Mr R A Ronan (Castletown); Mr G D Cregeen (Malew and Santon); Hon. J P Watterson, Mr L D Skelly and Hon. P A Gawne (Rushen); with Mr R I S Phillips, Secretary of the House. _________________________________________________________________ 736 K130 HOUSE OF KEYS, TUESDAY, 25th JUNE 2013 Business Transacted Page Leave of absence granted ......................................................................................................... 738 Tribute to Dr Edgar Mann, former Tynwald Member ............................................................... 738 Personal Statement by the Minister for Health, Mr Anderson .................................................... 740 Parish Walk, Congratulations to participants ............................................................................ 741 Questions for Oral Answer 1.1. Lois Group – FSC instructions in 2009 ......................................................................... 741 1.2. Government Actuary’s Department Report 2013 – Availability to Members ................. 742 1.3. Work Permit applicants with Manx Qualified partners – Policy .................................... 743 1.4. Companies Registry – Retention of company records ................................................... 746 1.5. Sudden or unexpected deaths – Reported figures .......................................................... 747 1.6. Landlord and Tenancy Bill – Landlords operating as a company ................................... 749 1.7. Eastern Civic Amenity Site – Vehicle number plate recognition system ........................ 750 1.8. Louis Group products – OFT action regarding alleged mis-selling ................................ 752 Questions for Written Answer 2.1. Unexpected deaths – Causes, reviews and Coroner referrals ......................................... 754 2.2. Area Plan for the South – Legal procedure during preparation ...................................... 754 2.3. Regeneration Area blocks – Suitability and contractor .................................................. 756 2.4. Government pension scheme retirees – Lump sum payments 2007-13........................... 756 2.5. Government pension schemes – Highest and lowest lump sum payments 2007-13 ........ 757 2.6. Government pension schemes – Total level of contributions 2007-13............................ 759 2.7. Government pension schemes – Estimated cost of lump sum payments 2013-19 ........... 760 2.8. Meary Veg Sewage treatment works – Effluent discharged 2007-12 ............................. 760 2.9. Meary Veg Sewage treatment works – Design load without contingency allowance ...... 760 2.10. Meary Veg Sewage treatment works – Population equivalent number 2007-12 ........... 761 Orders of the Day 3.1. Bill for First Reading – Post Office (Amendment) Bill 2013 ............................................ 762 4.1. Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Other Amendments Bill 2013 – Second Reading approved ........................................................................................................ 762 5.1. Public Health (Amendment) Bill 2013– Clauses stage deferred ........................................ 768 The House adjourned at 11.38 a.m. _________________________________________________________________ 737 K130 HOUSE OF KEYS, TUESDAY, 25th JUNE 2013 House of Keys The House met at 10.00 a.m. [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] The Speaker: Moghrey mie, good morning, Hon. Members. Members: Good morning, Mr Speaker. 5 The Speaker: The Chaplain will lead us in prayer. PRAYERS The Chaplain of the House of Keys Leave of absence granted 10 The Speaker: Hon. Members, I have given leave of absence to the Hon. Mr Quayle and Mr Thomas who are off-Island on official business. 15 Tribute to Dr Edgar Mann, former Tynwald Member The Speaker: Hon. Members, with the passing of Dr Edgar Mann last Friday, we mourn the 20 loss of a great political figure, public servant, former Tynwald colleague and friend. Edgar John Mann was born on 24th June 1926 in London. He was educated at Reigate Grammar School and King’s College, London, graduating from King’s College Hospital Medical School and qualifying as a doctor in 1949. National Service took him to Hamburg and the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he met and 25 married Joan, a ward sister, in 1951. Back in England, he went on to become a GP in a medical practice with Dr Clague, a Manxman who sowed the idea of one day moving to the Isle of Man. Dr Mann later took a diploma in Public Health, was elected fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene in 1962 and worked as Administrative Medical Officer of the South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. 30 Taking over a GP practice in Essex in 1963, he also went on to become Lieutenant-Colonel in the RAMC, in command of Field Ambulances in the Territorial Army. Dr Mann became one of the first medical practitioners to obtain a diploma in Medical Jurisprudence in 1971, and served as a police surgeon with the Metropolitan Police. He moved with his family to the Isle of Man in 1973, to take up medical practice as Laxey’s 35 GP. Dr Mann was a family doctor of the old-fashioned sort, your own medical history – indeed those of your family – being held firmly in his head. You would enter the waiting room – no appointment system existed in those early days – knowing you would be seen, even long into the evening. Only then would the good doctor end his surgery and go home. 40 Dr Mann was a popular GP, much loved by his patients to whom he devoted his medical skill, and whom he continued to serve for some years after he entered politics, loved even by the malingerers – those who hoping to be signed off work would be genially dismissed when they foolishly tried it on with the words ‘no note, no vote’. (Laughter) Edgar Mann became a Laxey Commissioner in 1974, and the following year served as 45 Chairman, before entering the House of Keys for the then two-seat constituency of Garff, _________________________________________________________________ 738 K130 HOUSE OF KEYS, TUESDAY, 25th JUNE 2013 succeeding Jean Thornton-Duesbery, and joining Speaker Charles Kerruish, who had by then already held the seat for 30 years. He was quickly appointed to several Boards of Tynwald – forerunners of today’s Departments – notably as Chairman of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, in 1980. To this day, there are 50 older farmers who famously still talk of him as one of the most effective political leaders the Manx agricultural industry has ever seen. In 1981, he became Chairman of the Finance Board, in effect Treasury Minister. This was a critical time for the Isle of Man. Government had virtually nothing in reserves, the ability to pay its bills resting on the prompt payment of income tax by a few individuals, and it was also the time 55 of the collapse of the Savings and Investment Bank. Edgar Mann was instrumental in bringing about the Financial Supervision Commission and first real banking regulation framework, restoring confidence and laying the foundations which would pave the way for the Island later being a reputable and respected financial centre. It was in this period of strenuous work as family doctor, diligent MHK and a leader in 60 Government that Dr Mann sustained an attack on his health in the form of a debilitating stroke. After it, by single-minded determination and perseverance, he overcame many of its effects, learning to write again by using his left hand. In 1985, he was elected to the Legislative Council, and also became a head of Government, as Chairman of Executive Council. In this role, he pioneered an enlightened new Residence Policy, 65 aimed at attracting younger, economically active people, and professionals, rather than just wealthy retired people, as hitherto, in order to diversify and grow the struggling Manx economy. In 1986, a new ministerial system was due to be brought in following the General Election. A decision of Tynwald following Select Committee recommendations in which Dr Mann played a leading role. On the eve of the General Election, as a matter of principle, Dr Mann decided to 70 resign from Legislative Council, and to contest it, even though this is not technically necessary,
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