Page 1977 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 24 October 1989
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MRS GRASSBY: Not support, I said. Upstairs I have a bottle that has "Whingeing Pills" written on it. I think I should bring them down and give them to the opposition members. All they seem to do is whinge. They whinge about not having enough staff, not having enough this, not sitting at school holiday time, not having goodness knows what! Every single thing you can think of, they whinge about. What have they got staff for?
Mr Collaery: Why have you got the pills?
MRS GRASSBY: For you lot. I knew some day they would come in handy. I saw them, bought them and said to myself, "Some day these are going to come in handy", and I have found a good reason to give them out. My God, I have!
Mr Collaery: Don't take an overdose, please.
MRS GRASSBY: I am going to come down and give them all out. I think you all need them. You all need a clean-out. Maybe that is the problem with you; maybe you all need a clean-out and then you would be all right.
Just take the briefing the other day on the traffic Bills. The moment we sat around the table I realised not only had they not read the Bills but also they had not even looked at them. After we had the briefing they left, but then they came up with amendments. They gave me the amendments. Now I get them and they say, "Oh, no, we do not want to put the amendments. You put the amendments. These are the amendments we want, but we want you to put them". Not only do they want us to give them briefings and lay the Bills on the table for three weeks but then they also want us to put the amendments up. What else do you want us to do for you? Wash you? Bathe you? Put you to bed? Feed you?
Ms Follett: Spoon-feed them.
MRS GRASSBY: Honest to God, you want to be spoon-fed.
Mr Kaine: You have got the staff. I know they all go on strike, but you have them.
MRS GRASSBY: What are you here for? I come in at 7.30 on lots of mornings and I find the cars of Government members all in but no cars from the opposition. If I come in at the weekend there are no cars from the opposition.
Mr Stevenson: That's absolute nonsense, and you know it.
MRS GRASSBY: You know I have rung your office many times, Mr Stevenson, and I have got no answer. There has been nobody down there to talk to you about briefing.
Mr Stevenson: That is absolute rubbish, and everybody in this Assembly knows it.
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