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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 3 Hansard (28 March) . . Page.. 759 ..

Ms Follett: You had been collaborating with the VMOs long before that. They saw you coming.

MRS CARNELL: It was a very complex negotiation with a large number of specialty groups, and we did it. It is interesting to hear those opposite make the interjections they are making, because the main problem - - -

Mr Wood: My interjection was that you had a balanced health budget.

MR SPEAKER: Order! If people wish to participate in this debate, they can have the courage to get on their feet and debate - not by cheap, lousy interjections as though it were some sort of bar-room brawl. Now, would everybody come to order.

Mr Wood: He sets the standard.

MR SPEAKER: Be quiet, Mr Wood.

Ms Follett: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: Mr Whitecross's speech was totally inaudible because of the interjections by Government members throughout his speech. As a result of that, you accused the entire Assembly of interjection. That was quite wrong. However, the Government has set the standard, and you have yourself, Mr Speaker. I am afraid that, if you regard interjections from one side as being interjections from the whole, that is exactly what you will get.

MR SPEAKER: I do not accept any interjections, and I will tolerate none from here on. Is that clear to all members?

Mr Wood: Okay; fine by me.

Ms Follett: Ask them over there.

MR SPEAKER: Continue, Chief Minister.

MRS CARNELL: Now we get to the report brought down yesterday by the Auditor-General. The major complaint that the Auditor-General had was that the cost model that was used to predict savings was flawed.

Mr Berry: It is your cost model.

MRS CARNELL: I am sorry, Mr Berry; it was your cost model.

MR SPEAKER: Watch yourself, Mr Berry!

MRS CARNELL: The information provided to me by the department when I came to power, according to the same cost model which had been used throughout the whole four years of negotiations and arbitration, has now been assessed. We have looked at the whole situation now and the Auditor-General believes that the cost model that Mr Berry used, Mr Connolly used and certainly I used was fundamentally flawed. It is interesting

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