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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4827 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

If inducements were the main problem, according to Mr Berry, I suppose that the involvement of SP operators, the concealment of fraud, the use of a tax haven, the deception and the lies are all just minor matters by comparison! It is inducements that matter, Mr Speaker; not fraud, not all the other things that have happened here, but inducements! I do not know how many ways Mr Berry can try to gloss over the VITAB deal. He tries to blame everybody else; but, as I have just stated, inducements were offered during Mr Berry's time as Minister for Sport. You have to ask: What did he do? He did nothing.

MR HIRD: I ask a supplementary question. I am horrified and shocked. My supplementary question is to the Chief Minister. From what you have just said, not only has Mr Berry misled this house but he has misled the people of the ACT on this matter.

Mr Berry: I think that ought to be withdrawn, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Yes, I think it has to be withdrawn, too. Withdraw, Mr Hird.

MR HIRD: I withdraw. What part should I withdraw?

Mrs Carnell: Any imputation.

MR HIRD: I withdraw any imputation.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, as any imputation has been withdrawn, all I can say is that the information that Mr Berry put on the Hansard record this morning would appear not to be correct. I would assume that, now that Mr Berry knows, he would hop up in this place immediately and apologise.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I will hop up immediately, as invited, with leave of the chamber.

Mrs Carnell: And apologise?

MR SPEAKER: You will do it under standing order 46.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, can I seek leave to make a personal statement?

MR SPEAKER: At the end of question time, yes. You will be able to do that under standing order 46.

MR CORBELL: My question is to the Attorney-General and Minister for Emergency Services. Minister, in explaining the circumstances of her motor vehicle accident on the Federal Highway on Sunday, the Chief Minister said on Capital television news on Monday night:

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