Page 2637 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 24 August 1994
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Mr Moore: Yes, that is the Speaker's leave. Why do you not seek the Assembly's leave to make a full statement on the issue? Then you have none of those restrictions.
MR BERRY: I have the leave of the Speaker to make a personal explanation about something that was raised in the course of debate. There was no question before the chamber. I presume that I am able to move on.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I think people want you to keep referring back to yourself and your own interpretation of these things. I think you could probably proceed to do that.
Mr Kaine: Tell us how you have been done wrong.
MR BERRY: No, no. It is all right for you to draw into question not only my competence but also the competence of other public servants, but you have to allow for the issues which you were involved in to be exposed as well. I am trying to demonstrate your connections with the undoing of the link between VicTAB and ACTTAB.
Mr Kaine: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. I think Mr Berry just blew his own story. It has nothing at all to do with a personal explanation.
MR BERRY: I am the one who has been attacked.
Mr Humphries: So you are attacking us instead.
MR BERRY: Give me leave to speak.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry has now sought leave to make a statement.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: I can go a little wider now that I have been given leave. We have the situation where the Victorian Racing Minister had said that he had been informed by racing officials that VITAB had such a huge advantage over the rest of the TABs in Australia - - -
Mr Lamont: This is the Victorian Racing Minister who now will not speak to Mrs Carnell.
MR BERRY: That is the one. He had been informed that it could offer up to 5 per cent in rebates, or even more on losing bets, and so on. He said that that would undermine every TAB in Australia - this is what the Victorian Minister said - and:
It is a potential gigantic scam in the racing industry and I will not tolerate it.
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