Page 795 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 12 March 1991
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ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Weapons Legislation
MR STEVENSON (9.30): Mr Speaker, it - - -
Mr Moore: He is going to speak in the adjournment debate.
Mr Connolly: Don't we have to decide - - -
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Stevenson.
MR STEVENSON: Mr Connolly looks puzzled. There are many things that could be said about - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Stevenson is entitled to speak for five minutes in the adjournment debate, as is every other member in this chamber. Please proceed, Mr Stevenson.
Mr Kaine: Go for it, Dennis. You still have 4 minutes and 42 seconds.
MR STEVENSON: It will not take anywhere near that long. A lot could be said about what Mr Connolly said, but I do not deal in debate in those terms. Perhaps it would be best if I issue a challenge to Mr Connolly.
Mr Duby: Pistols at dawn.
MR STEVENSON: Mr Duby suggests pistols at dawn; but, after that comment, I was going to make it a sabre. Mr Connolly said that I suggested that there was some unconstitutionality about the Bill because the police will be breaking the door down. I challenge him to provide any evidence that would hold up regarding that point. Mr Connolly is a solicitor and presumably is trained in the law and the need, when presenting claims about someone or something to do so in all good truth. He also suggested that I had said that there is no right of appeal. Once again I challenge Mr Connolly to present valid evidence to this Assembly, perhaps tomorrow, that I said that.
He also said that I had suggested that a dealer can be charged with repairing a weapon. Once again I challenge Mr Connolly to show that this statement, as well as the other statements that he made, is actually true. He also said that I had suggested that there was no compensation under the Bill. That is a false statement, once again. I suggest that Mr Connolly present evidence to this chamber suggesting that any of those statements has any truth whatsoever. He finished off what he was saying with the
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