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to support certain assertions that she made to the effect that inclusion of funding for a domestic violence refuge in the women's budget last year was not inconsistent with the facts. Would you care to comment on those assertions and claims?
MR COLLAERY: I thank Dr Kinloch for his question. Mr Speaker, to set the record straight, I wish to table a copy of the letter that was delivered after the luncheon break today to Ms Follett.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: under standing order 46, if Mr Collaery feels that he has been misrepresented, there is an appropriate time to deal with that in an appropriate way. It is certainly not a question.
MR COLLAERY: This is nonsense. This is within my portfolio. Come on, sit down.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Please be brief on that one, Mr Collaery.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, the short point at issue was that Ms Follett was defending the view of this Government that an inclusion in the women's budget of a domestic violence refuge involved funds which really were never appropriated and, therefore, the funding was never there. Ms Follett argued before the luncheon break that that was not part of what was at issue before the house in relation to deception and inconsistency.
To complete the story, I table a copy of a letter that was delivered to Ms Follett during the luncheon break, together with a letter from the Ministerial Liaison and Support Unit, from a Mr Shaw, attesting to the fact that that letter was in a batch that I signed prior to the issue arising in the Assembly today. I signed it in this house on Tuesday evening. Also for the information of members I tender an original, and table a copy, of advice received from my department on or about 27 July 1990, which makes clear the facts in issue in relation to this domestic violence refuge. The documents are as follows:
Domestic violence refuge - Standing Committee on Public Accounts inquiry on funding -
Copy of minute by the Executive Director, Community Programs Branch to Mr B. Collaery, MLA, Minister for Housing and Community Services, dated 27 July 1990.
Letter from Acting Manager, Ministerial Liaison and Support, to Mr B. Collaery, MLA, Minister for Housing and Community Services, dated 16 August 1990.
Copy of letter from Mr B. Collaery, MLA, Minister for Housing and Community Services, to Ms R. Follett, MLA, Presiding Member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, dated 16 August 1990.
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