Page 3816 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 16 October 1991
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MR HUMPHRIES: You can speak for the lot, Wayne. If we get that undertaking, we will be happy to reconsider the matter. But the fact of life is that those people opposite do not want this motion voted on. They want to avoid it at all costs, because they do not want this motion to get up. That is the real agenda that they are running to today.
Let us see what this inquiry produces when its time comes. I am confident that this will produce some answers that the Government will not be very happy about. That, of course, is the point of having an inquiry such as this - to find out what is really going on in the health budget and whether the Government's parameters for the conduct of health matters in the ACT are simply too tight for anybody, including our Board of Health, to manage.
MR MOORE (12.48): Mr Speaker, to resolve this matter, I seek leave to move that we reconsider this matter after the completion today of government business, notwithstanding any motion that has been carried on the gag.
MR SPEAKER: I am in a bit of a dilemma about how, technically, we can get out of this.
MR MOORE: That would resolve the problem. I think it is a perfectly logical way to go about it.
Mr Kaine: We could resume the debate on this at 5 o'clock.
MR SPEAKER: Yes. Mr Moore, firstly, we will seek leave of the Assembly for you to move your motion. Then I want some confirmation of the motion.
Leave granted.
MR SPEAKER: Now we need to have a motion in such a form that we can overcome the gag.
MR MOORE: The motion I am suggesting is that, notwithstanding any motion previously carried, item 16 on the notice paper today, in private members' business, be made an order for debate at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Dr Kinloch: Why not 3 o'clock? We have Estimates at 7 o'clock tonight. Some of us have been here since very early this morning.
MR SPEAKER: The technical way to overcome this is to put the question on the suspension of standing orders. If the motion to suspend standing orders is agreed to, that will then allow us to put Mr Moore's motion, if that is the desire of the house, and we can debate the matter later in the day. The question is: That the motion to suspend standing and temporary orders be agreed to.
Question resolved in the affirmative, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.
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