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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 5 Hansard (5 May) . . Page.. 1352 ..

MR SPEAKER: Order, please!

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, this is about the procurement of papers and documents in relation to Bruce Stadium, not what happened in relation to the doings of governments earlier on. Mr Speaker, I wonder whether you would mention the relevance section of the standing orders and live in hope that our brother members over there might follow them.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I do not uphold the point of order.

Mr Berry: You do not have to be relevant anymore?

MR SPEAKER: Just a moment. I have not finished. If you had been listening to Mr Humphries - you are not listening to me now either - Mr Humphries linked the matters by making a comparison with an event that occurred during the Labor Government. That is perfectly relevant. Mr Moore is now referring to it. The fact that you were talking to other members of the Assembly when Mr Humphries was outlining the situation is not my fault and it is certainly not Mr Moore's fault. There is no point of order.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I yield.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you.

MR MOORE: From the very time Mr Stanhope began, he talked about a wide range of issues. I am simply putting them in their context. The main issue that I want to raise is about the Auditor-General and the public accounts committee. We have an Auditor-General looking at this at the moment. That is his role.

Mr Berry: A cover-up. You would rather cover it up.

MR MOORE: Mr Berry interjects, "A cover-up". As I see it, he is implying - and I hope he withdraws it - that the Auditor-General is going to cover up for the Government. Every member of this Assembly apart from you, Mr Berry, knows that the Auditor-General never does any such thing. The Auditor-General, in his independent role in reporting to the Assembly, in reporting to the public accounts committee, is doing anything but covering up. Mr Berry, you ought to use the opportunity to withdraw your inference about the Auditor-General.

MR SPEAKER: Just a moment, please. Mr Berry, you might like to withdraw any suggestion against the Auditor-General.

Mr Berry: There was no suggestion in relation to the Auditor-General. My accusation of cover-up was in relation to the Government.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry. It is better to clarify it.

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