Page 4089 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 22 October 1991
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The fact of the matter is that this Assembly will work far better when I can be properly resourced to assist this Assembly to get its business done competently and professionally. The fact of the matter is that, if you want this parliament to work, you resource it. If you pay peanuts, that is what you get. This is happening constantly.
Motion (by Mr Connolly) proposed:
That the debate be now adjourned.
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question now is: That this debate be adjourned to another day.
Mr Berry: Firing from the hip again, Bernard.
Mr Collaery: Jump in the lake, jerk.
Mr Connolly: I raise a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. There was an interjection directed at the leader of the house, Mr Berry. I did not catch the first part, but it ended with a very bitter "jerk" remark. I would ask Mr Collaery to act in a rather more parliamentary manner.
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: I would ask you, Mr Collaery, to withdraw that, please.
Mr Collaery: I will withdraw that, if you ask me, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker - for you.
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Collaery.
Mr Berry: Do not feel hurt on my behalf.
Mr Collaery: Well, you are. If the cap fits - - -
Mr Connolly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was an interjection after he sat down - "Well, you are. If the cap fits". He has withdrawn, properly, on your instructions. He cannot then sit down and interject along those lines.
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Please, Mr Collaery.
Mr Collaery: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am absolutely astounded to see the Attorney on his feet in utter delight at correcting someone else for once. I will give him that little pleasure and say that when I said, "If the cap fits", I was referring, of course, to my statement that Mr Berry was a jerk. I have already withdrawn that, and I will, of course, withdraw "If the cap fits".
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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