Page 1127 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 March 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Order! It is not relevant to the motion. It is not relevant to the question of Mr Moore's travel. You are talking about other issues.
DR KINLOCH: No, I wish to support the right of Mr Moore to seek leave. What I want to make very clear, however, is that the question of whether there should be any financial support for that is another question altogether. Perhaps we could come to that another time.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Dr Kinloch. I take that observation.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (4.33): Mr Speaker, I have to say that I cannot understand the reason Mr Moore seeks leave in this situation. I have heard Mr Stevenson and Mr Moore quote from standing order 23 and I quote from standing order 23 as well. The first part refers to being excused from service in the Assembly. The Assembly is not sitting in that period. There is no requirement for - - -
Ms Follett: Yes, it is. This is phenomenal.
Mr Moore: The Leader of the Opposition has been approached to sit on Tuesday.
MR HUMPHRIES: I thought that the Leader of the Opposition rejected the proposal by the Chief Minister to speak - - -
Ms Follett: No. That is not so.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is so. He proposed a certain proposal which you rejected, so the Assembly, to my knowledge, will not be sitting next Tuesday. There is no application to the first part of that standing order. The second says, in effect, that a member shall be excused from service in any committee. What committee, I wonder, does Mr Moore refer to. Are there other committees other than the committee for which he is making his trip that will be meeting or having a hearing?
Mr Moore: There is a meeting of the Conservation, Heritage and Environment Committee, I understand.
MR HUMPHRIES: Well, I am sure that that committee would be able to rearrange its timetable so that you will not be inconvenienced, Mr Moore. If he is referring to the committee that he is going to serve on, then clearly he is not being excused from service on that committee because he is actually on the service of that committee if he makes that trip. I cannot understand that. I find it strange to hear members opposite, particularly in the Labor Party, complaining about our reluctance to give leave in this situation. Yesterday they made claims about a certain trip to Zimbabwe and back. They thought it was outrageous to make a trip of that kind.
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