Page 4300 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .
Mr Moore: Mr Speaker, the Chief Minister has just suggested that I have attacked Mr Collaery on those grounds. I have not done that at any stage. It was how the travel was acquitted.
MR SPEAKER: Order! That is not a point of order. That is a personal explanation. Please do not raise points of order that are not valid.
MR KAINE: I sought an extension of time, Mr Speaker.
Mr Berry: I move:
That the debate be now adjourned.
MR SPEAKER: No, Mr Berry. The Chief Minister did seek an extension.
MR KAINE: I sought an extension of time. Since I am making the Government,s response to this report I should have the courtesy of the extension. (Extension of time granted) Thank you, Mr Speaker, and thank you, members.
I was making the point that Mr Moore has this obsession and, as I said, well he might. The Deputy Chief Minister, as I said, spent $6,273 on travelling on government business. I will table this document, Mr Speaker. Mr Moore, who is so obsessed with travel and is so concerned about restraint and expenditure of public moneys, has spent $15,231 on travel - not on government business, on private travel purely for self-gratification. This is the man - - -
Mr Moore: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is an imputation on the Assembly. I have done no travel that has not had the approval of the Administration and Procedures Committee.
MR KAINE: Is this a point of order, Mr Speaker, or am I being interrupted?
MR SPEAKER: Order! That is a personal explanation. Chief Minister, I would ask you to clarify whether it was private travel or committee travel.
MR KAINE: Oh, I do not know what it was for, but it was public money, Mr Speaker, and obviously for personal gratification - not on any government business.
Mr Connolly: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Assembly business is not personal gratification.
MR KAINE: I am sure it was.
Mr Connolly: I need a direction on that point, Mr Speaker. Sanctioned Assembly travel cannot be described as private travel for personal gratification.
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .