Page 1698 - Week 06 - Thursday, 13 August 1992
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MR STEVENSON: It is a relevant amendment. I wonder whether there is anything in the standing orders about interjections.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, please restrict your remarks to the debate. Continue, please.
MR STEVENSON: I think I should be asked to restrict my remarks to the clause, but I wonder whether or not there should be some other remarks. So, what I ask the Minister, Mr Lamont, the Attorney-General, Mr Berry or anybody else - Mr Wood is back, so I ask him through the Speaker - is: How long will the racing industry - as I said, that is not just horseracing - be given to develop their code of practice?
Mr Berry: Why go on with it? It is irrelevant.
MR STEVENSON: Mr Berry says that what I am saying is irrelevant. I do not think it is irrelevant to ask how long the racing industry will be given to develop its code of practice. If someone thinks it is irrelevant, perhaps they could put the reason in Hansard, and it may enlighten me, because I cannot see it.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, at the moment you are allowed to debate the particular amendment. Would you please debate that particular amendment and continue.
MR STEVENSON: If I am debating the inclusion of the racing industry in a specific clause, my decision could well depend on whether it makes any difference to include that as an amendment. With any of these codes of practice, will it make any difference? If the laws are going to be passed before any of them have an opportunity to bring in their codes of practice, we may as well knock the whole thing out - Mr Kaine's amendment and the rest - because it would be absolutely meaningless. If there is not the time for the codes of practice to be developed, what use is there in having such things as a clause that refers to codes of practice or Mr Kaine's suggested amendment that would include the - - -
Mr Berry: So you are now speaking against both.
MR STEVENSON: Mr Berry says that I am now speaking against the amendment. I am asking for an explanation. I believe that it is reasonable for any member of this Assembly to have the right to stand up and ask a question, and I then think it is perfectly reasonable - - -
Mr Berry: At question time.
MR STEVENSON: "At question time", Mr Berry says; that is the only time we can ask a question.
Mr Berry: Or you can put it in writing and send it up; or you can catch me between here and the lift.
MR STEVENSON: I tried to see Mr Collaery one time, and he said that I could see him in the Assembly. I said, "When I am walking past your chair?".
Mr De Domenico: What did Bernard say?
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