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2012-Pp-0079 1 Contents Foreword .......................................................................... 2 2010-11: a year of comings and goings ........................ 3 Primary Legislation ........................................................11 Primary and Secondary Legislation .............................12 In Committee ................................................................. 13 Highlights of the Year ....................................................15 Tynwald Day ....................................................................16 Reaching out to young people and the wider community ............................................. 20 Clerk of Tynwald’s Office .............................................. 27 Appendices 1. List of Members with constituency and parliamentary appointments and parliamentary Committees as at 31st July 2011 ....................................................... 30 2. Officers in the Clerk of Tynwald’s Office ................ 31 3. Expenses of the Legislature .................................... 32 2 TYNWALD ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11 Welcome to the Tynwald Annual Report 2010-11 Foreword by the Presiding Officers TYNWALD ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11 3 Welcome to the Tynwald Annual Report 2010-11 This report covers the last year of the House Committees and debates, the continuing of Keys which was elected in November work of the legislature in the overall field of 2006 and dissolved in August 2011. engagement continued unabated. This area of activity comprises both engagement with In it we pay tribute to the outgoing President the wider community in the Isle of Man, and former Speaker, Mr Noel Cringle OBE. particularly young people, and engagement We also pay tribute to two other former with people and institutions, particularly Speakers, Tony Brown (Castletown) and parliaments, in other jurisdictions. We David Cannan (Michael), both of whom regard it as essential to do everything we retired from the Keys in 2011 after long and can to raise awareness within the Island of distinguished political careers. There were the constitutional, legislative, economic, changes in a number of other key roles as social and cultural aspects of parliamentary well. democracy; and at the same time internationally to promote the Isle of Man’s As the rest of this report makes clear, it was unique parliamentary inheritance. There a busy year for the legislature. In Tynwald were many highlights this year. Perhaps the Court perhaps the most significant debate of greatest of these was the visit on Tynwald Day the year was that on public sector pensions in of a group of NASA astronauts, accompanied June 2011, when a new Government Unified by television astronomer, Professor Brian Scheme was approved. The following Cox. This visit was of considerable interest month saw the appointment of the Hon. to young people and also had the potential Clare Christian MLC as President and was to bring the story of Tynwald to a wider something of a baptism of fire for her, with audience internationally. her first duty to preside over a statement by the Treasury Minister about a further This report is in a new format. Some of reduction in the Island’s VAT income which the descriptive material in previous Annual had been imposed by the UK Treasury. Reports is now available in the Tynwald Companion 2011. This report therefore Separate sittings of the Keys and Council concentrates more on the people and events were also busy, with 27 Bills being introduced that are new this year. during the year. Committee work rose to a peak of intensity in June and July 2011 as We hope you enjoy it. Committees finalised their reports for the last sittings of Keys and Tynwald before the Dissolution. CLARE M CHRISTIAN MLC In parallel with the formal business of STEPHEN C RODAN SHK 4 TYNWALD ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11 His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor Vice Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks, Lieutenant Governor 2005 to 2011 Until 1990 the Governor presided over all sittings of Tynwald Court. Although his direct involvement in Tynwald is much re- duced since then, he still presides over the proceedings on Tynwald Hill on Tynwald Day and gives Royal Assent to primary leg- islation on behalf of Her Majesty. Vice Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks was sworn into office as Lieutenant Governor on 17th October 2005 following a distinguished na- val career, having served as Commander of comings and goings the UK Task force in the Gulf in 1990 and as a UK Military Representative at NATO of Headquarters and EU Headquarters. Shortly before his retirement in March 2011 Sir Paul gave a farewell address to Tynwald Island; and the wisdom of successive Manx Govern- Court. ments that have fixed the roof whilst the sun shone. For example, there are not many votes in big-ticket a year a year ‘Thank you, Mr President, for your kind words, which items such as power generation, sewage, waste dis- are greatly appreciated by us both. I offer my sincere posal and prisons, but you have state-of-the-art facili- thanks to all Members of this Hon. Court for your ties in all these and other areas, as well as outstand- welcome to us today and on the many other occa- ing health services, excellent schools and a genuinely sions when we have met. diverse and flourishing economy. 10-11: ‘On the previous occasion I had the privilege of ad- ‘Very importantly, you have underpinned your hard- dressing this Court, shortly after my swearing-in, I earned economic success with strong budgetary dis- 20 noted that I had been in the Isle of Man rather less ciplines that have ensured that the Island is without than 100 hours. I have now been in the Island for debt and has reserves. I salute the Island’s politicians, some 2,025 days and I will spare you the maths of the past and present, for their far sightedness and for all number of hours that is but we have continually re- these real and important achievements which make a sided here for longer than anywhere else in our whole difference to all our lives. life. So it is not surprising that Government House and the Isle of Man truly feel like home. ‘In my time here, I made a point of visiting as many aspects of Island life as possible, both in the private ‘Leaving is hard, but I am not going to be mawkish: and in the public sectors, but, in particular, I have en- Penny and I have known from the outset that our term joyed visiting all Government Departments. I would of office is fixed, and it is right that it is so. Around like, therefore, to take this opportunity to salute and five years is the correct length of appointment. At thank all those working in public service areas, such the end of that time, new faces, new ideas and fresh as the judiciary, our Police and emergency services, thinking are both necessary and healthy. Education, Health and Social Services, Tourism and Leisure, the Environment, Transport, Infrastructure, ‘During our five and a half years, there are many Treasury and the vital work of Economic Develop- things that we have come to appreciate about life in ment. I especially salute the Civil Service which is the Isle of Man: the sense of community that per- all too often the target of uninformed criticism, but vades everyday life and manifests itself in many won- which makes Government happen. The Isle of Man derful and caring ways, not least through the support is blessed with many very hard working, able and given to so many charities; the sense of culture and dedicated civil servants and public sector workers history, apparent through such events as the Guild who deserve our appreciation and thanks. and the work of Manx National Heritage; the suc- cess of Manx sport, culminating later this year in the ‘Hon. Members, the bottom line of the Lieutenant- staging of the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Governor’s job is to represent the Lord of Mann and, TYNWALD ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11 5 on her behalf, to keep watch that there is good gov- ernment here, in the macro sense. In my time, I have never had a moment’s doubt that the Isle of Man is a well-governed, internationally respected jurisdiction where democratic values and the rule of law are par- amount and probity and public life can be depended on, and that has made my job very easy. ‘Mr President, Lady Haddacks and I take away many happy and treasured memories of our five-and-a-half wonderful years spent in Ellan Vannin. We wish you, this Hon. Court, and everybody in the Isle of Man, health, happiness and a bright and a prosperous fu- ture. Thank you for welcoming us to your Island. We have been honoured to live here.’ Address to Tynwald by Vice Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks, 15th March 2011 In 2010 the selection process for the office of Lieutenant Governor was assigned for the first time to a panel of Manx office hold- ers – the President of Tynwald, the Chief Minister and the First Deemster – to come forward with a candidate acceptable for the Sovereign to appoint by Warrant. The first candidate selected by this process was Mr Adam Wood, who was sworn into office on 7th April 2011. The Hon Noel Quayle Cringle OBE, President of Tynwald 2000 to 2011 Noel Cringle was first elected to the House not only the Island’s political life but the growing in- of Keys at a bye-election in Rushen in 1974, ternational scene. Many is the Commonwealth Par- In April 2000, having risen to the historic liamentary function, international presiding officers’ office of Speaker of the House of Keys, he conference, official ceremony or formal opening of a neighbouring parliamentary assembly where peo- was elected unopposed to be the second oc- ple at home can have had absolute confidence that cupant of the relatively new office of Presi- the Isle of Man was being well represented by your dent of Tynwald.
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