Page 3311 - Week 11 - Thursday, 12 September 1991
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This is an important issue, but it is one that the Government is aware of and is acting on. However, if you decide that you must have an inquiry, for whatever reasons you choose to justify it, then that inquiry ought to be taken up by the Assembly processes. If you do not agree to take up this inquiry under the Assembly processes, we have flushed you out. You are not serious about this issue if you are not prepared to do the job yourselves. You have been flushed out.
The chair of the Social Policy Committee does not want her committee to look at this issue - an issue clearly of interest to that committee. She will not have a go. Let us be serious about this. If you really must have an inquiry, why not let the Social Policy Committee do it. Why do you not agree?
Dr Kinloch: We have already explained that.
MR BERRY: I know that you are overworked, Hector. Have a couple of days off. Leave it to the able-bodied ones to get on with the inquiry.
Motion (by Mr Kaine) agreed to:
That the question be now put.
Question put:
That the amendments (Mr Connolly's) be agreed to.
A vote having been called for and the bells having been rung -
MR SPEAKER: I will give a ruling under standing order 155. Two members, Mr Berry and Mr Collaery, called for the vote at the same time. Mr Collaery was virtually out of order in that I had already called that the Noes had it. He then called that the Noes had it. Under standing order 155, in normal circumstances that would mean that Mr Collaery should vote with the Ayes. However, as Mr Berry called at the same time "The Ayes have it", I will rule that Mr Collaery can vote with the Noes if he so desires.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 7 NOES, 9
Mr Berry Mr Collaery
Mr Connolly Mr Duby
Ms Follett Mr Humphries
Mrs Grassby Mr Jensen
Mr Moore Mr Kaine
Mr Stevenson Dr Kinloch
Mr Wood Ms Maher
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Question so resolved in the negative.
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