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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 2 Hansard (27 February) . . Page.. 344 ..

MR SPEAKER: No, there is certainly no inference. If there was a suggestion of inference, I certainly withdraw it. What I am saying is that the wording of standing order 118A's preamble could lead to a situation which could never be resolved if people did not want to do so, and it seems to me, therefore, that it does require an examination of the entire standing order. It may also require an examination of point (c) to either bring it into line with the preamble or perhaps bring the preamble into line with (c); I know not. I do not think this is a matter to be debated here and now. Where are we at, therefore?

Mrs Carnell: I think you were going to take some advice, Mr Speaker. I am happy to make a statement with regard to this question for the Assembly, if you would like?

MR SPEAKER: Yes.

Mr Berry: No; we want the motion carried.

Ms Follett: I sought leave to move my motion. Are you going to deal with that?

Mrs Carnell: Fine. If you do not want to know, that is okay.

Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I understood that there was a motion before the house put forward by the Leader of the Opposition. I suggest that the Chief Minister may speak to that, if she wishes.

MR SPEAKER: She can speak to that. There is a motion before the house.

Ms Follett: No. If I could just refresh your memory, Mr Speaker, I thought you had ruled my motion out of order on Mr Humphries's point of order. I then sought leave to move the motion, and that request for leave has not yet been dealt with by the Assembly.

Leave granted.

MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (3.47): Mr Speaker, I have spoken to my motion, but I will do so again very briefly. Having got leave, I formally move:

That the Assembly requires the Chief Minister to respond to question on notice No. 123, which first appeared on the Notice Paper on 6 December 1995, by the adjournment of the Assembly's sitting today.

Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Somehow or other, the Assembly seems to have been totally diverted from its business. I do not know whether I am the only one in here who is confused, but I suspect that I am not.

Ms McRae: Yes, you are. We all know what we are doing.

MR SPEAKER: We have not been diverted. We are still on business.

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