Page 2051 - Week 06 - Thursday, 26 June 2008
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Mr Corbell: I raise a point of order as to relevance, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: There is a point of order.
MR SMYTH: I am addressing the tabling of the report.
Mr Corbell: This is not a debate about—
MR SMYTH: It does hurt, doesn’t it?
Mr Corbell: The question is—
MR SMYTH: Yes, your arrogance hurts.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Sit down for a minute, please, Mr Smyth.
Mr Corbell: The question is that the report be noted. That is the question Mr Smyth needs to address.
MR SMYTH: Mr Speaker, I am addressing the tabling of the report and how it comes to be in the Assembly. That is entirely appropriate. It is arrogant in the extreme—
Mr Corbell: On the point of order, Mr Speaker—
MR SMYTH: Oh!
Mr Corbell: Mr Speaker, the question is that the report be noted. Mr Smyth knows very well that this matter will be subject to debate in about five minutes, if he stops taking the approach he is adopting.
MR SPEAKER: That is not a point of order.
Mr Corbell: The matter will be able to be debated at that point.
MR SPEAKER: That is not a point of order.
Mr Corbell: But if Mr Smyth wants to play silly buggers, then we can be here until 12.30 tomorrow morning, if that is the way he feels about it.
MR SMYTH: Oh, threats now—arrogance and threats!
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Corbell: Mr Speaker, the opposition is failing to understand the procedure the government is attempting to adopt so that all matters relating to the budget can be debated concurrently. That is not unusual. It has happened in this Assembly many times before.
THE SPEAKER: That is probably the speech you ought to give on the question that the report be noted.
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