Page 2327 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 June 1994
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I do not know what "satisfaction" means. I expect that if I sat down now with the DPP, in the light of what is happening here, he would express to me the same view as he did as a witness before the select committee only a few weeks ago, and his preferred position is not the position that the Government is providing him with in this legislation. Mr Moore, I suggest that you read the select committee's report or talk to your colleague who sat there and heard the evidence put. I am sure that she will tell you that this is not the DPP's preferred position.
Ms Szuty: It is now.
Mr Moore: But it is now.
MR KAINE: No, it is not now. He has accepted second best.
Mr Moore: But he had the choice.
MR KAINE: One of the reasons why he has accepted second best, no doubt, is that you gave him a clear indication that you were supporting the Government and it did not matter what he wanted. He is accepting second best because he knows that the Government has the numbers and it does not matter what he thinks.
I must say that I am quite disappointed. I did think that Mr Moore might listen carefully to what I had to say. He obviously does not give a hoot. Once again he has tied himself to the Government's position. He has not thought it through, and he does not intend to think it through. He does not care whether the DPP's Office is run most efficiently and effectively in the public interest or not. He is quite prepared to accept blindly the Government's position. I submit that Mr Connolly, the Attorney-General, needs to think carefully about the words that he uses and the facts of the case when he gets to his feet, instead of just jumping up and down like a yoyo and letting his mouth run freely, which is what he just did. I would hope, Mr Moore, that you would consider what I just said. I do not believe that the DPP is happy. He has settled for something less than what he would have preferred. He might be happy to still have a job, but that is not to say that he is exceedingly happy about what is being imposed on him in this Bill.
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, under standing order 47, I would like to explain something that I believe has been misunderstood or misrepresented.
Leave granted.
MR MOORE: Thank you, members. Mr Kaine indicated in his speech that I was not listening to him. Had he listened to me, or had he understood what I had said, he would not have spoken in the way he did. I will clarify what I said. Yesterday, since the Director of Public Prosecutions spoke to the committee, I made it very clear to the Director of Public Prosecutions that the Government did not have the numbers to proceed and that, should he wish to have what he had presented to the select committee as his first
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