Page 298 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 20 February 1990
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granting leave can we have an undertaking that I also will have an opportunity to respond to the remarks that he makes?
MR SPEAKER: That is always open to the Assembly to judge, Mr Whalan. If you seek leave and the Assembly wishes to grant it, that would be the order of the day.
MR WHALAN: We will not grant leave in this case, Mr Speaker.
Leave not granted.
MR BERRY: I claim to have been misrepresented, Mr Speaker. In answer to a question that I raised in question time Mr Kaine, the Chief Minister, viciously attacked me personally in relation to my activities as Minister for Health and he said, and I can quote, that I had shirked my responsibilities. Mr Kaine is obviously falling apart under the pressure that is being put on him by the Opposition. He is falling apart because he is obviously suffering from some sort of selective amnesia on the subject.
Quite clearly he misled the Assembly in suggesting what was, in my view, an untruth; that a duty had been shirked in relation to the public hospital system in the ACT. Mr Kaine knows, as everybody else here knows, that there was extensive consultation on the issue of the future of the - - -
Mr Jensen: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker; I wonder whether Mr Berry is making a statement and not a personal explanation. It sounds like a statement to me.
MR SPEAKER: I would ask you to look to that matter, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: It was not a personal explanation that I asked to make, Mr Speaker. I claim to have been misrepresented, I want to put the facts on the record and I want the issue clearly understood. I do not expect that any member in this house needs to be badmouthed by somebody who is angry because he has had pressure put on him by opposition parties.
Mr Kaine: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I was not angry and I was making a perfectly plain lucid statement. There was no anger involved at all. I am being misrepresented. He is badmouthing me.
Mr Jensen: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I would like to draw your attention to standing order No. 47, which requires that a member in the capacity in which Mr Berry is now on his feet may not introduce any new matter.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, I uphold that objection, but I am not sure that Mr Berry was doing that. Please proceed.
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