Page 5221 - Week 16 - Thursday, 28 November 1991
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Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask you to get him to withdraw it or throw him out of the Assembly.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, would you withdraw the word "false".
Mr Stevenson: Will the Chief Minister - - -
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: No; I am asking you to withdraw the word "false". Would you do so.
Mr Stevenson: I withdraw, on your direction. It will not change the truth of the matter.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, would you just say that you withdraw the word "false".
Mr Stevenson: I withdraw the word "false".
MS FOLLETT: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I repeat that - - -
Mr Stevenson: You should be ashamed of yourself.
Mr Collaery: Whom was that directed to?
Mr Stevenson: It was directed to the Chief Minister.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I accept that withdrawal, Mr Stevenson.
MS FOLLETT: I say again that Mr Stevenson is not alone in this Assembly in having stood for one platform, abandoned it, and come up with some surprise packages.
Mr Stevenson: That is absolutely untrue.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Deputy Speaker, I require that that be withdrawn.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I think you had better withdraw that, Mr Stevenson. That also has been ruled unparliamentary. Perhaps some people should go to court for a few interpretations of words.
Mr Stevenson: Mr Deputy Speaker, where do we have a situation where someone making absolutely false statements is allowed to get away with it, and yet I cannot say the same thing?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, I suggest that you use the word "wrong" or something. I do not think anyone has held that to be unparliamentary yet. I have asked you to withdraw the word "untrue". That has been held before to be unparliamentary.
Mr Stevenson: If it has, I withdraw.
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