Page 1315 - Week 05 - Thursday, 25 June 1992
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Mr De Domenico: Why did you not table it?
MR LAMONT: I am sorry; you wanted the documents I quoted from. Let me go onto one other matter.
Mr De Domenico: No, no, no; we wanted the document you read from.
MR LAMONT: Let me go onto one other matter and I will tell you why it was put the way it was. Mr De Domenico, your usual exuberance overtook you again.
Mr De Domenico: No, it has not, Mr Lamont.
MR LAMONT: Yes, it did. In the middle of my speech, as I started to address my notes further, you said, "Make him table it; make him table it", jumping across the floor; and you were told that it was inappropriate to do so; that the time to do it was at the end.
Mr De Domenico: That is right.
MR LAMONT: I finished my speech. I returned, as I normally do - - -
Mr De Domenico: You finished your speech.
MR LAMONT: I finished my speech. As I normally do, I returned my papers.
Mr De Domenico: To whom?
MR LAMONT: To my office.
Mr Berry: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. I apologise to my colleague for interrupting, but these rude people over here have to be taken in hand and prevented from interjecting while this speech is made. It is a purely trivial matter anyway.
Mr Humphries: What is your point of order, Wayne?
Mr Berry: The point of order is - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: I think Mr Berry is referring to standing order 39. I have mentioned it before. Please let Mr Lamont proceed.
MR LAMONT: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Some considerable time later - this is what I was asked to do - I was asked to table the notes that I was speaking from. I did so. I simply did so. Now, if you want the document in relation to the quote, I table the quote. If you want the entire document, my office staff at the moment are looking for it, and I will table that entire document. It is not a problem. I was asked to table the notes that I was speaking from. If you will recall, it was a contribution in this house of some importance and considerable substance in refuting the issues that were put by Mr Westende. It refuted those arguments in considerable detail. That is what I tabled. If you want the quote, you have the quote. If you want the entire document that I took that from, I am happy to table the entire document.
Mr De Domenico: Why did you not table it when you were asked to?
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