Page 4056 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 22 October 1991
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Mr Berry: Mr Deputy Speaker, I move:
That the question be now put.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: We have an amendment.
Mr Moore: We do not have an amendment. It has not been moved.
Ms Maher: Excuse me - - -
Mr Berry: It has not been moved.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Leave had been granted. I recognise Ms Maher.
Mr Berry: I take a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker.
Mr Collaery: She has moved her amendment.
Ms Maher: I moved my amendment. I sought leave. I was granted leave.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: She has, I think, moved her amendment. We had a technicality in relation to your motion.
Ms Maher: I sought leave and I was granted leave to move an amendment.
Mr Moore: You did not move it.
Ms Maher: I did. I got up and I said, "I move to delete". I was given leave.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I think you are technically correct in that your motion was before the Chair; so you do have the call. If the Assembly wishes to take another course - I appreciate Ms Maher's point and the fact that she wanted to talk to her amendment - you can simply vote against Mr Berry's closure motion. The technicalities of the situation are that Mr Berry's motion is before the Chair. The only way Ms Maher's amendment could be dealt with properly was to dispose of Mr Berry's amendment first so that she could in fact move her motion. We had to get rid of Mr Berry's amendment first. Mr Berry, you did move the gag and we have to vote on that. Members are quite free to vote against it if they want Ms Maher to talk to her amendment. The question now is: That Mr Berry's motion be agreed to.
Question resolved in the negative.
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