Page 4038 - Week 13 - Thursday, 10 November 1994
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Motion (by Mr Moore) proposed:
That the submission from Professor Arthur Burns to the Select Committee on Community Initiated Referendums be:
(1) incorporated in the Select Committee on Community Initiated Referendums documents presented; and
(2) authorised for publication.
MR STEVENSON (11.46): First of all - - -
Mr Moore: Madam Speaker, I move:
That the question be now put.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, it is in my discretion whether I put the question straightaway. In this instance I shall allow Mr Stevenson to speak.
MR STEVENSON: First, let me make the point that you, Madam Speaker, did not ask whether leave was granted. To then have a go at me because I mentioned that point - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: It is not related to the motion before us, Mr Stevenson.
MR STEVENSON: and not allow me to speak is not okay.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, you are out of order.
MR STEVENSON: A few moments ago Michael asked me whether I would agree to give him leave to table a submission, supposedly, to the inquiry into CIR. As Mr Moore mentioned, the submission came in last night. I said, "Can I have a look at it?". I looked at the start of it. I did not have time to read it. I would like to do so. My view might change.
Mr Moore: Have you read any other submissions to the committee?
MR STEVENSON: Yes, I have. Looking at the start of it, I would suggest that it is not so much a submission but some form of attack. Professor Burns, of all people, was well aware that the inquiry was on and was well aware when the inquiry was accepting submissions until. I suggest that there may be some other reason for presenting the submission on the night before the report was to be tabled. For that reason, I do not agree that the submission should be accepted, as it would have been had it been submitted in time.
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