Page 1355 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 24 March 2010
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Mr Stanhope: Glass jaw, Mr Hanson, glass jaw.
Ms Gallagher: Watch out, we will get a letter from him!
MR HANSON: calling me dumb and calling to me to “get back into the hole you came from in the Army” and things like that, that is quite acceptable, that is quite fine and you are happy to do that. But should we question—and, yes, we do raise our voices at times; that is quite true, but I do not think we use the same sort of personal abuse. I do not ever use—
Mr Stanhope: Half an hour ago you attacked the Minister for Health for daring to have a private holiday at her own expense.
MR HANSON: You called Mr Smyth—
Mr Stanhope: You’re not personal. You just attacked Tom Brennan, you just—
MR HANSON: No, I did not. It is a very good way—
Mr Stanhope: You dared to attack the Minister for Health for having a private holiday.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope!
MR HANSON: It’s great, the way you spin things. I do not think—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, can you return to the debate and stop talking across the chamber.
MR HANSON: The problem is, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am sitting here with the Chief Minister—
Mr Stanhope: Ask Mr Smyth about his holiday to Florence.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope!
MR HANSON: calling me dumb, and repeatedly calling me dumb, and you sit there and refuse to tell him to be quiet.
Mr Stanhope: I said nobody could be that dumb.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: I have spoken to Mr Stanhope several times, Mr Hanson, and I have already spoken to you.
MR HANSON: Well, if that is not working—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope, please desist. Mr Hanson, keep going with your contribution to the debate and do not respond—
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