Page 3392 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 17 August 2011
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Mr Corbell: Point of order.
MR HANSON: Can you stop the clock, please?
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Stop the clock. Mr Corbell, a point of order.
Mr Corbell: I ask you to review your decision in relation to accepting Mr Hanson’s amendment? Part 3 of Mr Hanson’s amendment asks for the Assembly to refer the termination of Mr Buchanan to the justice and community safety committee for inquiry. This question has already been considered by the Assembly in a debate earlier this year and was negated.
MR HANSON: We have just had this debate.
Mr Corbell: Therefore I raise with you, Madam Assistant Speaker, the fact that this part of Mr Hanson’s amendment offends the same question rule and should not be allowed.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, I did consider this a moment ago. It is very much on the balance but, as Mr Hanson said, there were some new facts. I have one suggestion: maybe when the voting comes we can split so that you can vote on one and not the other. I think it is very much a lineball decision.
Mr Corbell: Whether or not the circumstances have changed is not a relevant consideration. The fact is that the question has been put to the Assembly—
Mrs Dunne: Point of order.
Mr Corbell: I am on the point of order on Madam Assistant Speaker’s ruling.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Let Mr Corbell finish his point.
MR HANSON: You have ruled, Madam Assistant Speaker.
Mr Corbell: Well—
Mrs Dunne: This is highly disorderly. The Speaker has made a ruling. We had a lecture this morning about—
MR HANSON: Move dissent if you do not agree with it; otherwise sit down.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Have you any more to add, Mr Corbell?
Mr Corbell: Yes, thank you, Madam Assistant Speaker. On your ruling, Madam Assistant Speaker, respectfully, the question as to whether or not there are new facts or circumstances as asserted by Mr Hanson is not the point. The standing orders of the Assembly say that the same question, once dealt with by this place, cannot be considered again in the same calendar year. It does not matter what the circumstances
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