Page 2058 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 8 September 1992
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I think Mr Berry has solved what we all agreed was a problem by putting the public methadone clinic at Woden Valley Hospital and allowing people on the methadone program to pick up their doses at many points around Canberra. I think that problem has been solved by this legislation. Sending these two Bills to the committee would be an absolute waste of the committee's time. Mr Moore might think it is all right. He probably feels that we could sit until December 1993. This committee has a time in which to report, and I think we should be getting on with the things that we are supposed to report on.
MRS CARNELL (9.09): I rise to support Mr Moore's motion. What we have to look at here in the very brief time available is that a number of people put submissions to the committee. However, the written submission that was put to the committee by Mr Berry's own department had absolutely nothing to do with health centres, as Mrs Grassby and Mr Moore well know. The committee had to go by a Canberra Times article - another article based on a leak, I am told. So the committee can look in detail at what Mr Berry has now proposed only if the Assembly refers this legislation to the committee. Unfortunately, Mr Berry's officers, in their written submission, talked about something totally different. We also have to look at what the user groups and all the other people - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Excuse me, Mrs Carnell. This is a 15-minute debate and the time for the debate has expired.
Question put:
That the motion (Mr Moore's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 9 NOES, 8
Mrs Carnell Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell Mr Connolly
Mr De Domenico Ms Ellis
Mr Humphries Ms Follett
Mr Kaine Mrs Grassby
Mr Moore Mr Lamont
Mr Stevenson Ms McRae
Ms Szuty Mr Wood
Mr Westende
Question so resolved in the affirmative, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.
MR MOORE (9.14): Madam Speaker, I thank members for supporting the suspension of standing orders. I now move:
That the Drugs of Dependence (Amendment) Bill 1992 and the Drugs of Dependence (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1992 be referred to the Select Committee on Drugs for inquiry and report by 15 October 1992.
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