Budgetary allocations for the Home Affairs Ministry do not reflect the new Government’s promise to get tough on employers who violate work permit policy, according to Shadow Home Affairs Minister Walter Roban.Mr Roban is also claiming that Government is recycling jobs schemes from the former administration and claiming them as new initiatives.But Government hit back saying Mr Roban is misinforming the public (see separate sidebar).“The OBA needs to stop information spinning and policy scheming, get down to business and create a credible national job plans for Bermudians,” the Pembroke East MP told The Royal Gazette.Mr Roban reiterated his argument made in Monday’s Budget debate that funding had not been made available to increase enforcement of work permit policy.“The compliance section, the enforcement division of the department, has no uplift in budget. This means no increase in manpower for enforcement and no increase of other resources for enforcement,” he said.And he questioned why there had been a 47 percent decrease in funding for the Policy and Planning division and that there had been no mention of promised legislative changes in the Throne Speech or the Budget.“There are no additional bodies, no additional resources to tackle the numerous policy changes the Minister has already announced.“We are led to believe more is to come. Where are resources the Minister and Government are going to dedicate to further advancing the work permit and immigration framework?”Mr Roban noted that the training budget for the Immigration department had also been cut by 77 percent.“The drastic cut in communications as well as Advertising and Promotion by 69 percent and 100 percent respectively suggests the Government will continue to have the appalling public relations problems already generated by the Minister.“There is clearly no interest in dedicating additional resources into a robust public relations campaign on the aggressive changes to policies.”But Government had boosted funding for “professional services” by 233 percent to retain consultants on Tribunal Appeals and electoral reform.“The issue of electoral reform was not mentioned in the Throne Speech or Budget Statement.“This mention by the Minister is the first of its kind since the general election. There was no clarity or detail in the budget presentation as to what specific work is to be done, which leads us to have serious concern as to the intentions of the government with this issue.“What will be next? We can only hope there will be information provided post budget on this matter for public benefit.”He continued: “The numbers don’t lie. Despite what has been said, the budget maintains the status quo. This budget is not satisfactory when it comes to a ‘get tough approach’ to the key policy areas in Immigration the government professes it is committed to.”Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley presented the Immigration budget brief on behalf of the Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy who sits in the Senate.Mr Roban also criticised Senator Fahy’s announcement that an employment programme was being developed with the cruise lines. Such a programme had existed for many years, Mr Roban said.“The OBA are so desperate to scurry and devise solutions to their 2000 jobs in five years promise they are manufacturing schemes called ‘new’ that have already been in place under the previous PLP government,” Mr Roban said.“Under the late Tourism Minister David Allen, a programme was arranged with RCL that facilitated the training of Bermudians in the cruise industry.“This programme remains in place and is coordinated by the local representatives of RCL International.“There is a similar agreement with Norwegian Cruise Line as part of their ten year agreement with the Bermuda Government, and the information on this can be obtained from the Ministry of Transport.“The cruise industry has been a good partner with Bermuda and the previous government made numerous arrangements to benefit Bermudians.”On Monday, Senator Fahy told the media that his Ministry was “actively working with our cruise ship partners to establish a local employment office liaison relationship with a view to securing employment opportunities across all professions with those cruise companies that service Bermuda”.He added that he had met personally with a cruise line principal and he expected a programme to be rolled out in “coming months”.“It is anticipated that this programme will yield employment opportunities for Bermudians who are skilled in any number of areas, both technical and professional.”