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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 4 Hansard (3 April) . . Page.. 1359 ..

MR SPEAKER: Do you want to add to an answer?

MR WOOD: No, I seek leave to make a further response to a question in question time when a staff member of mine was unjustly maligned. I am sure the Assembly would like me to correct that.

Leave granted.

MR WOOD: The Disability, Housing and Community Services DLO in my office whom Mrs Burke claimed hung up on-

Mrs Burke: I never said that, Minister.

MR WOOD: I'm afraid you did.

Mrs Burke: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker, I did not say that.

Members interjecting-

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Wood has the floor.

MR WOOD: I will carry on with my statement, Mr Speaker

Mrs Burke: I did not say anybody specifically.

MR WOOD: Not anybody specifically, but someone.

Mr Smyth: She said, "Why did your office hang up?"She didn't even mention a staff member. If you want to identify somebody, go for your life, but she did not.

MR WOOD: Thank you. Let me go on with this, then. My DLO in Housing is well known and much respected.

Mrs Burke: Mr Speaker, this is not what I said.

MR SPEAKER: Mrs Burke, let me explain the process here.

Mrs Burke: But he's mentioning the DLO.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Wood, sit down for a moment.

Mrs Burke: I did not mention the DLO.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mrs Burke, if you are upset or you feel that you have been misrepresented by Mr Wood, you have available to you the same options as anybody else in this Assembly. You can seek leave from me to make a statement in relation to the matter pursuant to standing order 46. I can only deal with one person at a time here, but the Assembly has given leave to Mr Wood to make a statement and I think we should just let it happen.

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