Page 621 - Week 02 - Thursday, 21 February 1991
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MR MOORE: Yes; I will come back to it in a minute. During the debate in the Estimates Committee, Mr Speaker, after three-quarters of an hour of questioning, the Government members and members of the Public Service admitted, quite clearly, that there would be an increased danger to children through their school closures program and that children would - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, relevance, please.
MR MOORE: This is absolutely relevant, Mr Speaker. The whole basis of their argument for getting rid of this weir is the safety of people; that people might die. It is exactly - - -
Mrs Grassby: Who is getting the contract?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Grassby!
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, what we have from the Minister is just either intellectual dishonesty or intellectual laziness.
Mr Duby: I take a point of order. There was an interjection from Mrs Grassby - I believe that she has been making these comments while I have been out of the house - that somehow this is linked to the letting of the contract. I would like that imputation withdrawn. She is implying that this is going on because somehow a deal has been done or something.
Mrs Grassby: I am not implying anything. I am asking you who is getting the contract. There is no implication; I am just asking who is getting the contract.
Mr Duby: I have not the slightest idea.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mrs Grassby, please rise when you are addressing the Chair. The situation, as I understand it, is that there was an implication. If you did not intend it, please withdraw it.
Mrs Grassby: It is not an implication. I am just asking who is getting the contract.
MR SPEAKER: If there was no implication, that was the way it was read by the members. Please withdraw.
Mrs Grassby: Why should I withdraw when I was not implying that?
MR SPEAKER: That was the way other people interpreted what you said. That is what I am saying.
Mrs Grassby: That is their problem, not mine. I just asked who is getting the contract.
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