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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1995 Week 11 Hansard (13 December) . . Page.. 2955 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

that he was prepared to give the Government a couple of months to do it. This was only a week ago. That is why yesterday the Administration and Procedure Committee, as Mr Berry correctly says, approved this going onto the notice paper. I indicated at the time that I was not happy but I was not prepared to use the Administration and Procedure Committee as a way of blocking something a particular person wanted to bring onto the notice paper. It is better, as far as I am concerned, for this debate to take place on the floor of the house now rather than in the Administration and Procedure Committee, which may or may not be reported.

The real issue is that the debate on the Kippax Health Centre and the Jindalee Nursing Home needs to take place in a couple of months, if the Government has not delivered. That is what we are looking at.

Mr Berry: They will be gone then. It is too late.

MR MOORE: We have Mr Berry arguing all the time, "They will be gone. You cannot trust the Government. You cannot do this - all those things", when the reality is, and it comes through every single time he gets up to speak, that we might just have an opportunity to bring the Government down, that the only way to test them is to threaten them. Riding through all that is the understanding that, of course, if the Government is threatened, they just might come down and Mr Berry might just get to be either Chief Minister or Deputy Chief Minister - one of the two; we are never sure which. At least the Labor Party can actually focus on some issues instead of focusing on their own internal strife.

MS TUCKER (11.36): Mr Speaker, I do not know what Mr Moore is talking about, really. It is quite possible that there is some other agenda from Labor; I accept that.

Mr Moore: It is possible.

Mr Humphries: Remotely possible.

MS TUCKER: This is a political forum, is it not? The point is that what the Greens are concerned about is the security of health centres.

Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: The debate is about the suspension of standing orders, not about the substantive issue.

MR SPEAKER: I uphold the point of order.

MS TUCKER: I thought it was acceptable to say, because I thought that was what Mr Berry said before, that the reason I support this adjournment motion being debated is that there is a critical issue of the sale of health centres here. We believe that if this motion is not debated today they could be sold. We did think we had an assurance from Mrs Carnell that they would not be sold until the motion was debated. For that reason, we think we should finish the debate today so that there is a motion in place, if it is agreed to, as a further direction to Mrs Carnell and her Government that we do not think it is acceptable to sell those health centres.

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