Page 4165 - Week 14 - Thursday, 25 October 1990
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MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I do not know what I am withdrawing; but for the sake of the Assembly I will withdraw it, whatever it was. The point I am making, Mr Speaker, is that there is some question hanging over whether two Ministers should be sitting here or not sitting here.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Moore!
MR MOORE: This is important and relevant.
MR SPEAKER: This is not relevant to the debate.
MR MOORE: May I explain the relevance, Mr Speaker? I have just a couple of minutes here. Mr Speaker, may I have the opportunity to explain the relevance?
MR SPEAKER: Certainly not. I believe that you are right off the track, Mr Moore. Having seen your amendment that you tried to put to me, I know where you are going, and I would ask you to get back to the debate before the house.
MR MOORE: Not at all, Mr Speaker. I am not going that way at all. I was just trying to point out that there is some question over whether two of these Ministers should even be sitting in this house at all.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I object to this.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Kaine: He is totally misrepresenting the truth.
MR SPEAKER: I do not see that he is quite doing that, Chief Minister, but the point is that he is bringing in points that are not relevant to the debate. Please get to the point of the debate, Mr Moore. Your time is running out.
MR MOORE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. No, I have five minutes and five seconds. Mr Speaker, the point that I started with, and I think it is most important, is that a censure motion of this nature from a majority Government is really total nonsense at a time when in fact we should be getting on with the business of the house, at a time when in fact Mr Connolly and I discussed at length - - -
Mr Jensen: Stop telling fibs.
MR SPEAKER: Withdraw that, please, Mr Jensen.
Mr Jensen: I am sorry, Mr Speaker. I was referring to Mr Berry telling fibs. That is what we are debating. Mr Berry was telling fibs.
MR MOORE: That is quite right. Mr Connolly and I discussed whether we would waste the Assembly's time by debating a censure motion on a much more serious issue than this. We determined that it would be far better to
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