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2013-Pp-0157 HOW TO GET IN TOUCH We hope you will find this document useful. If you would like to comment on any aspect of it, please contact: The Clerk of Tynwald Office of the Clerk of Tynwald Legislative Buildings Finch Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3PW Telephone: +44 (0)1624 685500 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.tynwald.org.im CONTENTS Foreword by the Presiding Officers ...........................................................................................2 Members of the Legislature.......................................................................................................4 Primary and Secondary Legislation............................................................................................6 Bills introduced in the 2012-13 Legislative Year....................................................................8 Committee Work........................................................................................................................9 Tynwald Day 2013....................................................................................................................10 Tynwald Guests....................................................................................................................11 Tynwald Day Awards............................................................................................................12 Post-Ceremony events.........................................................................................................12 Reaching Out to Young People and the Wider Community ....................................................15 Exhibitions in the Tynwald Library.......................................................................................16 Tours of the Chambers.........................................................................................................17 Junior Tynwald 2013............................................................................................................18 Inter-Parliamentary Engagement ............................................................................................19 Activities in the UK and Further Afield ................................................................................23 Office of the Clerk of Tynwald .................................................................................................25 Internal organisation............................................................................................................25 Co-operation with external partners and stakeholders ......................................................25 Staff news.............................................................................................................................27 Appendix 1: Members at 30th September 2013 .....................................................................28 Legislative Council................................................................................................................28 House of Keys.......................................................................................................................29 Appendix 2: Committees of Tynwald and the Branches at 30th September 2013.................31 Appendix 3: CoT Officers 2013 ................................................................................................36 Appendix 4: Expenses of the Legislature 2013-2014 budget ..................................................37 Photography by Paul Dougherty, Tynwald Seneschal 1 PRESIDENT OF TYNWALD THE HON. CLARE MARGARET CHRISTIAN BSC AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF KEYS THE HON. STEPHEN CHARLES RODAN BSC MR PHARM S SHK FOREWORD BY THE PRESIDING OFFICERS Welcome to the Annual Report for 2012 to 2013. This has been a very busy year for Tynwald and the political background has produced its fair share of challenges. The purpose of this report is not to comment too closely on the political environment but to describe what has happened to Tynwald as an organisation. In the course of the year we have seen the election of Members to the Legislative Council – Mr Michael Coleman, as a new member, and the re-election of Mr Wild and Mr Turner and the election of Mr Corkish, previously a member of the House of Keys. This brought about a by-election in Douglas West, which saw Mr Chris Thomas elected. The first Acting Attorney General was also appointed under legislation passed in this session. We have also seen the departure of Mr David Callister and Mr Eddie Lowey. The report comments on this further in the next section. 2 This year we are very pleased to have strengthened our links with Norfolk Island, with a visit by the President of Tynwald, who was a guest of the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly when the territory celebrated its Anniversary Day on June 8th. The invitation was extended under the cultural agreement established between the Isle of Man and Norfolk Island in 2011 which was ‘guided by the desire to develop and strengthen friendly relations and to promote interest in the fields of heritage, culture, research, education and media communications.’ Mr Speaker went to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) as leader of a two-day parliamentary good governance seminar. The seminar, hosted jointly by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), familiarised TCI elected politicians with parliamentary practices and procedures of the TCI House of Assembly, following the formation of the territory’s new constitution in October 2012 and elections in November 2012 that saw TCI resume local administration after three years of direct British rule. Mr Speaker and the Clerk of Tynwald, who were joined by Gibraltar’s Minister for Enterprise, Training and Employment the Hon. Joe Bossano, met the Speaker of the TCI House of Assembly the Hon. Robert Hall, the territory’s Premier, the Hon. Dr Rufus Ewing as well as the Leader of the Opposition, ministers, politicians, Cabinet members, senior officers and representatives from the Integrity Commission. We are delighted that Mrs Rosemary Sayle, widow of the late Norman Sayle TH (the first ever recipient of the Tynwald Honour) has kindly loaned paintings to the Clerk of Tynwald’s Office. Tynwald now houses the largest collection of Norman Sayle watercolours on public display. Our connections with colleagues in other parliaments continue to be strengthened by practical cooperation through the provision of Hansard to Guernsey, Gibraltar and, a recent addition this year, Alderney. We hope to include further jurisdictions in the scope of this co- operation in the future. We believe that our provision of Hansard is an example of how sharing expertise between small Parliaments can improve service to the public and deliver better value for money. President of Tynwald Speaker of the House of Keys Hon Clare Margaret Christian BSc Hon Stephen Charles Rodan BSc MR Pharm S SHK 3 MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE On 18th March 2013 all four vacant seats on the Legislative Council were filled on the same day. This was the first time this had happened since 7th March 1995. Two of the four seats were taken by sitting Council Members Mr Juan Turner MLC and Mr Tony Wild MLC, who were re-elected. The other two seats had been left vacant by the retirement of Mr Eddie Lowey and Mr David Callister. One of these was taken by Mr Michael Coleman, who was already known to many of us from his service as a lay member of the Manx Electricity Authority and other statutory boards. Mr Coleman has since been appointed a Member of the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Social Care and Vice-Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading, and has been elected by Tynwald to the Economic Policy Review Committee. The other vacant seat was taken by Mr Geoff Corkish MBE MHK, who ‘went upstairs’ to the Council, necessitating a by-election in the House of Keys constituency of Douglas West. This was held on 23rd May 2013 and the successful candidate was Mr Chris Thomas. In March 2013 Mr John Quinn was appointed Her Majesty’s Acting Attorney General. Mr Quinn was born and raised in the Isle of Man where he attended St Mary’s School, Douglas followed by boarding school at Upholland College, Skelmersdale. He was called to the Manx Bar 1978. He is a past President of the Isle of Man Law Society and a past Chairman of both the Bank of Ireland (Isle of Man) Limited and Hospice Care. In his busy general legal practice he was a founder partner in Quinn Kneale Advocates and prior to his appointment was an in-house corporate lawyer. His interests include farming, gardening and music making. EDDIE LOWEY Mr Eddie Lowey was first elected to the House of Keys at a by-election in 1975 and re- elected in 1976 and 1981. He first stood and was elected as a Member of the Legislative Council in 1982 and remained in that Branch continuously until his retirement in February 2013. To mark the occasion of Mr Lowey’s retirement the presiding officers hosted a reception at which former Rushen MHK and keen football fan was presented with a clock set in a piece of wood engraved by the Manx Heritage Foundation, with which he had been closely involved for many years, with the final words he spoke in Tynwald borrowed from TE Brown: 4 ‘And the years do come And the years do go And when you look back It’s all like a puff Happy and over and short enough’ Mr Speaker expressed his thanks on behalf of the House of Keys for Mr Lowey’s seven years of service. He said Mr Lowey had made many friends both within Tynwald and, more widely, on
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