Page 1969 - Week 07 - Thursday, 23 August 2007

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to you after today. I can give you some Christian names and phone numbers. If that is what you want, you can ring them personally. I will not be tabling anything in this place today.

Mr Stanhope: Because you have not got anything.

MRS BURKE: I have.

Mr Stanhope: You have not got a thing.

Motion (by Dr Foskey) proposed:

That the question be now put.

Mr Mulcahy: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order.

MR SPEAKER: The question is that the question be now put. That has precedence over all other matters.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

MR SPEAKER: The question now is that Mr Stanhope’s motion be agreed to.

Mr Mulcahy: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Mulcahy on a point of order.

Mr Mulcahy: Mr Speaker, I have spoken with the Clerk on this point. Under standing order 117 (b) (i) there is an explicit requirement not to name people in questions. The whole series of events arose as a consequence of a question that Mrs Dunne asked about equipment. If we were to proceed to carry this motion, we would be effectively compelling a member to do something that is not in accordance with the standing orders in relation to questions.

I know this is a subsequent motion, but it has arisen directly from a question that was raised by Mrs Dunne where we are now directing a member to provide information which we are told is inextricably linked with the evidence that is being sought.

MR SPEAKER: Order! The motion before the house specifically, as I recall, calls for any identifying material to be removed.

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