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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 6 Hansard (21 May) . . Page.. 1498 ..

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, I have the warrants here.

MR SPEAKER: You might care to elaborate.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, I hope that you are not going to entertain frivolous points of order from the Government all day. She did cancel $14.2m worth of capital works, and she tabled the warrants last week. She is taking frivolous points of order.

Mrs Carnell: On the point of order, Mr Speaker: I would like Mr Whitecross to clarify where I ever said that we cancelled $14.2m worth of capital works.

MR WHITECROSS: That is another frivolous point of order, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Standing order 46 allows personal explanations to be made at the end of members' speeches.

Mr Wood: That is what she should have done.

MR WHITECROSS: That is right. She has a right of reply as well.

Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Standing order 46 allows the Chief Minister to make a statement, but it does not cover misrepresentation by the Leader of the Opposition. It does not cover misleading the house, which is what he is doing.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, I understand that they are nervous about this, because they have cancelled $14.2m worth of capital works. They tabled the warrants last week. Mrs Carnell will have a chance to tell her version of the story in her reply, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Under standing order 46 or standing order 47 - - -

Mr Moore: Or standing order 47.

MR SPEAKER: Or standing order 47, as Mr Moore agrees with me, there will be an opportunity at the end of the speech, unless the member likes to take note of what has been said at this point and corrects it.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, the facts are very simple. She has stuffed up the health budget - by $14.2m - and she has reduced the capital works expenditure by $14.2m to pay for it. That is the reality. Mrs Carnell might not like it. (Extension of time granted) Mrs Carnell might be embarrassed that at a time when the economy is slowing down she is helping to slow it down by cancelling public capital works; she might be embarrassed that she has stuffed up the health budget and blown it out by $14.2m. The fact is that is what has happened.

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