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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 1 Hansard (20 February) . . Page.. 236 ..

MR SPEAKER: Order! The claim has been made that you were critical of public servants; is that correct?

MR WHITECROSS: That is right.

MR SPEAKER: And you have refuted that claim?

MR WHITECROSS: No, I have not yet, because I have not explained - - -

MR SPEAKER: So far, all you have done is talk about Mrs Carnell, and that is not relevant to your personal explanation.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, let me try again to explain it to you. Mrs Carnell claimed that I had attacked public servants.

MR SPEAKER: Correct.

MR WHITECROSS: My press release did not attack public servants; it attacked Mrs Carnell. And Mrs Carnell is seeking to deflect my criticism of her onto the public servants.

MR SPEAKER: In that case, I am sorry; but, if you claim that you did not attack public servants but you attacked Mrs Carnell, I would think that your personal explanation has finished.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, Mrs Carnell also misrepresented me on another matter, which was to suggest that I had falsely made criticisms of her health figures contained in the November financial statements. Mr Speaker, in fact, the other document that I tabled yesterday was a letter from Mr Mick Lilley, in which he indicated that the documents - - -

Mrs Carnell: And you are doing it again. That is what you did yesterday, and it is wrong. It is out of context.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, are you going to deal with the Chief Minister?

MR SPEAKER: I am going to listen.

MR WHITECROSS: You cannot hear if Mrs Carnell is interrupting, can you? Mr Speaker, what Mr Lilley said in the document yesterday was that the November figures for the Department of Health - territorial - were not meaningful and not accurate. Mr Speaker, that is what the - - -

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