Page 4655 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 19 October 2011
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550 people in the custody of the territory parent, is this current campaign by the Liberal Party sapping the confidence in those people who are parents of those remaining children in the care of the territory parent?
Opposition members interjecting—
Mr Hargreaves: I bet if you’d shut up for long enough, you’d listen to it!
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves.
Mr Hargreaves: No, but—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Hargreaves.
Mr Hargreaves: Well, you get old.
Mr Smyth interjecting—
Mr Hargreaves: Yes, I don’t go to sleep like you did.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, you are warned. That was a quite inappropriate intervention, and I had to ask you several times.
Mr Hanson: On a point of order, is this question out of order or not, Mr Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: Are you taking a point of order, Mr Hanson?
Mr Hanson: Yes, I am. I ask you to consider whether the supplementary question was in order or not.
MR SPEAKER: On what grounds?
Mr Hanson: Relevance, and there was an extensive preamble, and the preamble would preclude the question from being in order.
Mr Hargreaves: On the point of order, Mr Speaker, the supplementary may have been a bit long, but there was no preamble and it was on care and protection services, which was the substantive subject of the question.
Ms Gallagher: Mr Speaker, on the point of order, just to assist, the actual question was: am I concerned around the staff and the stress on the staff in care and protection services? Ultimately, that was the question that was asked. It was not about the Liberal Party.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, I am prepared to accept that interpretation of the question. I do not think the answer is going to involve a dissertation on the Liberal Party’s role in this. The question is in order. You may proceed.
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