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below what was suggested by Mrs Carnell. Early last year Oliver Latham Laboratory in New South Wales were quoting a cost of $7 per sample; but in October 1991 Oliver Latham were quoting $15 per sample, the same amount as in the ACT. These charges are for a comprehensive drug screen, with confirmation of drugs detected, and they cover the cost of consumables and equipment. The ACT Government Analytical Laboratory conducts some 5,000 drug screens per year.
TABLING OF DOCUMENT
Leave to Move Motion
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion in relation to a member's failure to present a document to the Assembly.
Leave not granted.
Proposed Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders
MR DE DOMENICO (3.04): Madam Speaker, I move:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr De Domenico moving a motion in relation to a Member's failure to present a document to the Assembly.
On 16 June at 9.46 pm - - -
Mr Berry: You are speaking to the suspension of standing orders.
Mr Connolly: You are trying to tell us what you want to do, so that we can decide whether to let you do it.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, it is a serious matter, which is why I was very hesitant to do what I just attempted to do. It relates to a member of this Assembly being required by the Assembly to table a document. That member did table a document, but it was not the document that this Assembly asked the member to table. Madam Speaker, I think that reflects on this Assembly; or otherwise I would not have chosen to do what I am doing now.
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister) (3.06): Madam Speaker, I oppose the suspension of standing orders. I do not mind, nor would any member of the Labor Party, considering the suspension of standing orders over something serious, if we were given some detail about the issue before making a judgment on it. But the Government is not going to stand by and allow the business of this Assembly to be upset without being given full information on the issue. To try to spring on, first of all, by leave, a debate that would disrupt the business of this Assembly, without advising other parties in the Assembly, demonstrates a level of arrogance that we have become used to with some members of the Liberal Party. I exclude Mrs Carnell because she is always well mannered in this place. The rest of them, I have to say, have demonstrated a level of rudeness and arrogance on these issues which I find difficult to stomach, particularly when this sort of smartie approach is taken.
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