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MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Jensen, you are debating the issue. Please proceed, Mr Berry, if you must.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, the reprehensible behaviour you have displayed in your handling of these Assembly duties is beyond tolerance.

Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, on a point of order; that is clearly an imputation on you as Speaker. I ask him to withdraw.

MR SPEAKER: Your objection is upheld there, Mr Humphries. I would ask you to withdraw that, Mr Berry.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, your handling of these Assembly duties is beyond tolerance and further lowers the dignity of this place. I therefore call on you to resign.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, under standing order 202(e), I ask you to withdraw that immediately. If you want to do something along these lines, there is provision for a substantive motion and you have the opportunity to do that. You are flouting the rules of the house itself.

Ms Follett: You would not let him move a motion.

MR SPEAKER: He can move a substantive motion. Under 202(e), I ask the member to withdraw that.

Member Named and Suspended

MR SPEAKER: This member is persistently and wilfully disregarding the Chair. I hereby name the member.

Motion (by Mr Humphries) put:

That Mr Berry be suspended from the service of the Assembly.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 8  NOES, 7

Mr Duby Mr Berry
Mr Humphries Mr Connolly
Mr Jensen Ms Follett
Dr Kinloch Mrs Grassby
Ms Maher Mr Moore
Mrs Nolan Mr Stevenson
Mr Prowse Mr Wood
Mr Stefaniak

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Mr Berry was, therefore, suspended at 6.34 pm for three sitting hours under standing order 204, and he accordingly withdrew from the chamber.

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