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to remain relevant and if he is not prepared to debate the bill before us then he should sit down.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you very much, Mr Corbell.
MR SMYTH: On the point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I have been promoted again. Thank you very much, Mr Smyth. Yes, you have the floor.
MR SMYTH: You have got your training wheels there with your book. It is well and good for Mr Corbell, as the manager of government business, to make the points that he makes. We know that Mr Corbell always jumps when he is stunned by statements that are true. The point is that if some courtesy was offered we would not be doing this now.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Sorry, Mr Smyth, so far there is no point of order. I would ask you, please—you have the floor—to now bring your speech to the matter in hand. Thank you.
Mr Hanson: Simon is twitchy because you—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, I would ask you also, please, if you wish to interject, do it in mime, because I do not want to hear it and if you persist I will rule.
Mr Hanson: Mime?
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Do you want to challenge my ruling?
Mr Hanson: No. I am just wondering whether, if I assist with the mime, that was going to be—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I am just inviting you to be silent while Mr Smyth has the floor.
Mr Hanson: Certainly. I always listen attentively to what he has to say.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I know. You are a real performer. Mr Smyth, you have the floor.
MR SMYTH: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. The opposition will be supporting the Financial Management (One ACT Public Service) Amendment Bill. The purpose of the bill is quite straightforward, following on the implementation of the proposal to reform the ACT public service into a single agency following the Hawke review.
This bill proposes a number of amendments to the Financial Management Act. Basically, it will replace the word “department” with the word “directorate” and it will replace the words “chief executive” as you see the position in the former department with “director-general”. These proposed amendments do not cause the opposition any difficulty but this is not all that the bill does.
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