Page 682 - Week 02 - Thursday, 21 February 1991
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MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I have already withdrawn it.
MR SPEAKER: I asked you to withdraw the remark that Mr Berry did not attend the Assembly committee meetings. I indicated that he in fact does.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Berry, on my advice, has never attended the planning committee meetings.
MR SPEAKER: That is a different issue. You said "all".
MR COLLAERY: I am addressing that issue, Mr Speaker, and no other. I am not referring to any other committee.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Collaery, would you just withdraw the statement that he attends no committee meetings?
MR COLLAERY: May I conclude my remarks, and will you get order into this house, please?
MR SPEAKER: That is what is happening. Please, all I ask you to do is withdraw, on an objection from Mr Berry, which I uphold. I believe that you said that he attends no committee meetings.
MR COLLAERY: If I said that, I withdraw it, of course, Mr Speaker. I am referring to the fact that Mr Berry has drawn a salary and has not contributed fully by being on the planning committee to which he was appointed.
Ms Follett: I take a point of order. Mr Berry is not entitled - - -
MR COLLAERY: This is frivolous. I ask you to get order in this house.
Ms Follett: I assure you that it is not frivolous. Mr Collaery has made an imputation against Mr Berry by saying, as he has just said, that Mr Berry has not earned his salary because he does not attend the planning committee. Mr Berry receives no salary as a member of the planning committee, and the imputation there must be withdrawn. It is not frivolous.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Your objection is overruled. You are playing with semantics there. Please proceed, Mr Collaery.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I have attempted to make some reasonable comments. They have been interrupted. I do ask whether I can have about 10 more seconds without these people interrupting. The community would be disgusted to see the Opposition in their current disarray. The root cause of it is that they are unwilling to accept the fact that they are not in power. They have never accepted that they have been put out of power. The Leader of the Opposition - - -
Ms Follett: I take a point of order. Relevance, please.
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