Page 1039 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 6 May 2014
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6.5: the Chair moved that the Chair’s Draft Report be considered by the committee.
6.6: on the motion of the Chair and by leave of the Committee, all paragraphs of the Chair’s Draft Report were considered and, on a motion by the Chair and by leave of the Committee, were moved together and agreed to.
6.7: the Committee considered Appendices A, B, C and D to the Chair’s Draft Report in order on the Chair’s motion and were agreed to without amendment.
6.8: the Chair moved that the report as amended be agreed to—
The chair put the question to the committee and the committee voted: ayes 2, Dr Bourke and myself; noes 2, Mr Coe and Mr Wall—
6.10: the motion was therefore resolved in the negative.
6.11: the Chair noted that, in accordance with Standing Order 250B, a written statement would be presented to the Assembly to advise that the Committee was unable to agree upon a report along with the minutes of proceedings.
6.12: Dr Bourke moved that the Chair’s Draft Report and the Alternate Draft Report be included in the minutes of proceedings.
6.13: The Committee discussed the motion—
The chair put the question and the committee voted: ayes 2, Dr Bourke and myself; noes 2, Mr Coe and Mr Wall—
6.15: the motion was therefore resolved in the negative.
6.16: the Committee noted the recent experience of the Select Committee on Regional Development who, in view of not being able to agree upon a report, lodged a special report in the Legislative Assembly. On the same day the Assembly passed the motion to publish the Chair’s Draft Report and Alternate Draft Report.
6.17: it was noted that it is now up to the Assembly to resolve whether to authorise for publication the Chair’s Draft Report and the Alternate Draft Report to the Committee’s current inquiry.
Those are the extracts of the minutes, Madam Speaker. That makes it very clear that opposition members, whilst supporting the whole report—the whole chair’s report—then would not adopt it and then would not deal with their report either, even when asked if they wanted to put it into the minutes of the meeting so that it could be discussed in the Assembly.
Of course, Mr Coe has taken the opportunity to read his whole report into the Hansard. I guess that getting it on the record is pretty good. So I would like to table the chair’s draft report, but unfortunately the motion has not come up yet. I do hope the Assembly supports that motion.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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