Page 5032 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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Mr Berry: More than a bit rough.
Mr Kaine: Do you want to go too?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Order, Mr Berry! We all would like to go, if you do not mind. Thank you, Mr Berry.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I think that is an outrageous interference with the rights of members.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, it certainly is. Please resume your seat, Mr Berry. Your objection is overruled.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, just because the Speaker is tired, everybody else is going to have their debating rights taken away from them.
MR SPEAKER: That is not the case at all. Mr Moore was not being relevant to the point under discussion.
Mr Connolly: On a point of order: on what authority can you stop a person? You can tell him to remain relevant and you can direct him to make his remarks relevant; but you cannot say, "Sit down: you cannot speak again".
MR SPEAKER: I think you are wrong, and I will point out the number to you.
Mr Connolly: Well, please do, Mr Speaker. It is extraordinary.
Mr Kaine: Are you dissenting from the Speaker's ruling, Mr Connolly?
Mr Connolly: You would not allow that either.
Mr Kaine: I would be interested to hear on what basis he is dissenting.
Mr Connolly: I want to know what the standing order is. He does not know; he is looking.
MR SPEAKER: I am looking at standing order 62.
Mrs Grassby: Looking, looking, looking.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Standing order 62 states:
Having called the attention of the Assembly to the conduct of a Member who persists in irrelevance or tedious repetition of the Member's own arguments or of the arguments used by other Members in debate, the Speaker may direct the Member to cease speaking.
Mr Berry: I think it was entirely inappropriate, Mr Speaker, because he was relevant.
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