Page 498 - Week 02 - Thursday, 25 February 1993
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Mr Moore: No, we are not both trying to get on each one; we are sharing them out.
MR HUMPHRIES: You will get your chance, Mr Moore. That is not what the standing orders say. If you are not happy with the standing orders, do another deal with your friends over here and change the standing orders. Say, "Membership shall be as nearly as practicable proportional to representation, unless we are Independents, in which case we are entitled to a seat on every committee". If that is what you want, say it, but do not pretend that you are in some way justified in making this change. It is nothing more, as Mr Kaine said, than a tawdry little deal.
MR DE DOMENICO (11.30): Madam Speaker, I rise to tell the truth about things I have been involved with. Mr Berry was not even around when they happened.
Mr Berry: Madam Speaker, there is a clear imputation there that other speakers have not, and I think he has to withdraw that.
MR DE DOMENICO: I imputed nothing, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: That is for me to judge, Mr De Domenico. You are making a clear imputation that other members have not told the truth. I ask you to withdraw that imputation.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, I will repeat - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: I am asking you to withdraw the imputation, not your statements.
MR DE DOMENICO: I am just trying to reflect, Madam Speaker. With the greatest respect, I said that I was going to rise and tell the truth about the occasions on which I was present and nobody else was. That is not an imputation at all. I am just saying that I am going to tell the truth about the meetings I was present at.
MADAM SPEAKER: Since you have decided to say outright that there is no imputation whatsoever, I accept that.
MR DE DOMENICO: Last night, after the Assembly adjourned, Ms Szuty came over to me and said that Mr Moore and she intended to make certain changes to committees. I said, "Let us have them in writing and we will consider them". That is what I said. Point No. 2 is that at the Liberal Party meeting this morning I did discuss with my colleagues the fact that Ms Szuty had approached me last evening, after the Assembly had adjourned and I was walking out through the gates here, and asked me about these committees and I said to let us have it in writing. Mr Moore came across to me at about 10.32 this morning and showed me these notices that he handed out.
Mr Moore: What about during the sitting yesterday?
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