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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 2 Hansard (21 May) . . Page.. 494 ..

MS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Treasurer): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, and pursuant to subsection 28(3) of the Canberra Tourism and Events Corporation Act 1997, I present the Canberra Tourism and Events Corporation quarterly report for October to December 1997.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Community Safety and Minister Assisting the Treasurer): For the information of members, I present information bulletins relating to patient activity data for the Calvary Public Hospital and the Canberra Hospital for March 1998.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, with the leave of the Assembly, I was wondering whether I could address a question to you prior to discussion of the matter of public importance.

Leave granted.

MR CORBELL: I thank the Assembly. Mr Speaker, I would like to request that you undertake to look at Mrs Carnell's response to my final supplementary question in question time today, in which she indicated that she had already answered that question. I would invite you, Mr Speaker, to review the Hansard, in terms of the standing order that a question fully answered cannot be asked again, to see whether or not that is actually the case in relation to that supplementary question.

Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order in respect of that matter. Mr Corbell obviously wants to prove some point here.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker - - -

Mr Humphries: If I could finish my - - -

Mr Berry: He had leave to ask the question.

Mr Humphries: Yes, I am aware of that, Mr Berry. You can take your seat now. I am not questioning his leave to ask the question. I am putting to the Speaker that it is not appropriate to take this matter on notice to review it. Mr Corbell has posed the question of - - -

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