Page 633 - Week 02 - Thursday, 6 March 2008
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with his media release and supported the Government’s decision to appoint Balloon Aloft.
Quite clearly, I knew—
Mr Barr: And read the rest.
MR SMYTH: You want me to read the whole lot? I am quite happy to read the whole lot.
MR SPEAKER: As long as it relates to a personal explanation.
Mr Barr: It does.
MR SMYTH: I can read the whole lot for the minister. It continues:
Both Joseph and I expressed these views separately to Brendan and the fact that there had been a history of discontent with the Fiesta’s operation. We both felt the change of the event management would be beneficial to its ongoing success.
That is irrelevant to the first part, which is—
Mr Barr: Yes, say that more clearly. Say it again.
Mr Stanhope: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SMYTH: that the minister was saying—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR SMYTH: I was soliciting the support of two gentlemen around the ACT, and they refute his claim.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Now what is your point of order, Mr Stanhope?
Mr Stanhope: I must say that Mr Smyth mumbled the last sentence. I wonder if he might reread it. I did not hear—
MR SPEAKER: That’s not a point of order.
Mr Stanhope: just the last sentence.
MR SMYTH: I will reread the lot. Let me read the paragraph again, Mr Speaker:
Brendan Smyth wasn’t soliciting the Tourism Taskforce nor TIC’s support for his stance on the change to the running of the event, rather we both disagreed with his media release and supported the Government’s decision to appoint Balloon Aloft. Both Joseph and I expressed these views separately to Brendan and the fact that there had been a history of discontent with the Fiesta’s operation. We both felt the change of the event management would be beneficial to its ongoing success.
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