Page 3130 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 12 September 1990
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Mr Connolly: Are we going to get a vote on this?
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR KAINE: You will get your vote when the debate is finished. You do not want to hear my side? You have had your say, and you do not want to hear mine.
Mr Berry: I am going to move that the question be put.
MR KAINE: That is democracy for you. I understand your approach to democracy. The Government, having an appreciation of the fact that there are still people in the community who have reservations about the facts on which the Government took its decision, is now prepared to have an independent eminent person, whom the community when they know who that person is will accept as being eminently qualified, to review the facts on which the decision was made. This will be an eminent person qualified to review the facts on which the decision was made, and to assure the community - - -
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, we seek to ensure that this motion is voted on, and I therefore move:
That the question be now put.
Mr Kaine: Now he wants to gag the debate.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Members of the Assembly will come to order. The question is that the question be put. Those of that opinion - - -
Mr Moore: May I seek a point of clarification, Mr Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: Have you a point of order, Mr Moore?
Mr Moore: I would seek a point of clarification. In the interests of making the Assembly work, I wonder whether members would agree to sit well past 12.30 until the debate was finished, to allow them to talk. We could then - - -
Mr Kaine: That matter is not on the agenda. Mr Berry has moved to gag the debate. Let that be on the record.
Mr Berry: It is on the record because I do not want to see you people run us out of time. That is what you are about.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, there is no capacity under standing orders to move that a motion be put whilst a speaker is on his feet and speaking.
MR SPEAKER: Order! The Assembly will come to order, please! Mr Humphries, I draw your attention to standing order 70.
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