Page 2227 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 22 June 2011

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Mr Corbell interjecting—

MS LE COUTEUR: should actually be used.

Mr Corbell interjecting—

MS LE COUTEUR: There has simply been insufficient publicity.

Mr Corbell interjecting—

MS LE COUTEUR: The other point that has been made—

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, please remain silent.

MS LE COUTEUR: as well as—

Mr Corbell interjecting—

MS LE COUTEUR: Madam Deputy Speaker, it is impossible for me to speak with Mr Corbell continually interrupting. I cannot hear myself talk.

Members interjecting—

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Stop the clock again, please, Clerk. Members, Ms Le Couteur has the floor. Please remain silent. Thank you very much.

MS LE COUTEUR: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The other problem with the Nightrider was that it was a three-month trial. As we all know, it takes people a while to become accustomed to the public transport options available to them, and three months—

Mr Corbell interjecting—

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Corbell.

MS LE COUTEUR: most of which was over university holiday time, which was simply not long enough to establish—

Mr Corbell interjecting—

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, please!

MS LE COUTEUR: I would also—

Mr Hanson: Madam Deputy Speaker, it is unlike me to get up to defend the Greens, but there is a point of order here. You have called on Mr Corbell repeatedly. This is exactly what he did yesterday, ignoring the Speaker’s rulings. If this was a member of the opposition, he would have been named by now. I ask that you apply the same consistency to Mr Corbell that you do to the opposition or the crossbench.

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