Page 3309 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 12 October 1993
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MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer): Madam Speaker, I would like to make a short statement also. It relates to what Mr Humphries has just said. The fact is, and an examination of Hansard will bear it out, that the very day after the Industrial Relations Commission made its ruling on the voluntary separation scheme, the following morning, I was in the Estimates Committee as Treasurer for five hours. In the course of that five hours I got not one question on the voluntary separation scheme, and that was the time when they should have been asked.
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport): Pursuant to standing order 47, Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a short statement in relation to what Mr Humphries was referring to, particularly in relation to the use of tobacco products.
Mr Kaine: No.
MADAM SPEAKER: As a matter of personal explanation or under a member's speech that has - - -
MR BERRY: It is standing order 46.
MADAM SPEAKER: Proceed, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: I was personally - - -
Mr Kaine: I declined leave, Madam Speaker. He had to seek leave.
MADAM SPEAKER: Under standing order 46 it is my leave, Mr Kaine, which was why I was asking.
Mr Kaine: Madam Speaker, he was not asking you under standing order 46. He sought leave to make a statement about what Mr Humphries said. It is a different thing.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Kaine, for your point of order. I think we have since clarified the situation. Under standing order 46 Mr Berry now has leave.
MR BERRY: I found it personally offensive, Madam Speaker, that Mr Humphries was promoting the use of tobacco products in this Assembly.
Mr Moore: That is not a personal explanation.
MR BERRY: I am offended by it. I think Mr Humphries, as a former Health Minister, ought to be - - -
Mr Moore: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. You were very relaxed with Mr Berry - appropriately so, of course - with reference to standing order 118(a) and (b) throughout question time; but this is really pushing the luck on standing order 46 in terms of a personal explanation. Madam Speaker, he is about - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, I do not take that as a point of order. Anything I do under standing order 118 is entirely my responsibility. Please proceed, Mr Berry.
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