Page 1478 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 1 May 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, your time has expired. The situation with that 10-minute extension is that it allows a Minister to reply to a matter raised in the preceding adjournment debate. If you look at standing order 34 you will see the words are there.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (10.01): Mr Speaker, I would like to make a very brief comment on something that was debated earlier today. I will do it on my own behalf and hopefully on behalf of all members of the Government.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, it has to do with the adjournment debate only.
MR KAINE: I am speaking on the adjournment debate.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, but on a comment made in the adjournment debate; in other words, we are discussing the maypole.
MR KAINE: In that case, you are denying me the opportunity to be magnanimous to the new member of the Assembly.
MR SPEAKER: You can seek leave to suspend standing orders, Chief Minister.
Mr Humphries: I disagree with your ruling, Mr Speaker. I have to say I have heard this interpretation of the standing orders before. I consider that the standing orders indicate that there is no requirement for relevance, but there is no necessary requirement that you have to be irrelevant in respect of any debate that has gone on earlier in the day. I cannot understand why any member cannot speak on any subject whatever during the course of the adjournment debate.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I direct you to standing order 34(f).
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, on a point of order; my colleague the Chief Minister wishes to refer to an event. That event was a remark made by the new member, Mr Connolly, in prefacing his speech in relation to 1 May. He mentioned his delight in being appointed on 1 May 1990. I assume that that is relevant to a matter raised in the preceding adjournment debate because my colleague Mr Berry raised 1 May.
MR SPEAKER: Certainly.
Mr Collaery: If the Chief Minister wishes to make that connection he is entitled to.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Yes, I agree. Please proceed, Chief Minister.
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