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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 1 Hansard (16 February) . . Page.. 134 ..

Mr Kaine: Yes, well stacked by your supporters, I hear.

MR MOORE: It was not stacked at all. I must say to you, Mr Speaker, that quite a number of people commented on how well conducted and how positive the forum was, including, I might add, a person who ran for the Greens at the last election.

Mr Kaine: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. What might have happened at some public meeting convened by Mr Moore has nothing whatsoever to do with the question that I asked.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you. I uphold your point of order, Mr Kaine.

Mr Kaine: I suggest you ask him to stick to the point.

MR SPEAKER: I uphold your point of order, Mr Kaine.

MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, the question is whether safe injecting places are still on the agenda. I think it is important for me to explain how they are on the agenda. An important part is the forum that I ran following a request from Ms Tucker. We had a difference of opinion as to whether that was the best way to go about it; nevertheless, I have had time to watch and see how the forum went and then to make sure that I extended an offer to members of the Assembly - to Mr Stanhope, to crossbench members - to brief them on exactly where we are up to with safe injecting rooms, on what my briefings are on the legal issues and on a whole range of issues that Mr Stanhope wrote to me and asked a series of quite important questions about, all of which need to have sensible answers and all of which we are going to make a decision about. I will proceed to that, but in the meantime I have released an evaluation of the previous ACT drug strategy. In that drug strategy - - -

Mr Kaine: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. I repeat, this is nothing to do with the question that I asked. It is a good deal of propaganda for Mr Moore, but it has nothing to do with the question that I asked.

MR MOORE: As you know, Mr Kaine, we have had many rulings in this house from Mr Speaker that Ministers, provided they confine themselves to the subject matter, as I am - - -

Mr Quinlan: No, you are not.

MR MOORE: You asked, "Is this on the agenda?" and I am explaining how it is on the agenda.

Mr Kaine: No, I did not ask that question, Mr Speaker. I asked whether it was in fact Liberal Government policy. I did not ask whether it was on the agenda. Mr Moore said that.

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