Page 5258 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 29 November 2017
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Mrs Dunne: So you can’t ask?
MR BARR: No, you can ask questions of whoever you want, but the executive can determine who answers them. I am providing clarity for members in relation to the responsibilities. It is best to look at the administrative orders rather than parliamentary websites in relation to the detail of who has responsibility for each area. There is a column in the administrative orders that outlines who has portfolio responsibilities and the items and matters for which they have responsibility.
Mr Coe: Madam Speaker, I wonder if the Chief Minister would like to take this opportunity to apologise to members of the opposition whom he belittled by saying that there was no Minister for Urban Renewal when, quite frankly, there is.
MADAM SPEAKER: Chief Minister, I think you are going to stand on your statement just then.
MR BARR: Indeed.
MADAM SPEAKER: Are there further matters arising from question time that the executive would like to deal with?
Mr Coe: You said there was no Minister for Urban Renewal.
MR BARR: For God’s sake. I apologise, Madam Speaker, so that the Leader of the Opposition can get on with his day.
Mr Rattenbury: You’re a pack of glass jaws.
Mrs Dunne: On a point of order, Madam Speaker, I ask the Chief Minister to withdraw his unparliamentary language.
MADAM SPEAKER: What was unparliamentary?
Mrs Dunne: “For God’s sake.”
Mr Barr: I withdraw, Madam Speaker.
Mr Hanson: On a point of order, Madam Speaker, Mr Rattenbury was interjecting in a most unparliamentary way and was calling the opposition a pack of glass jaws. I am notably sensitive, Madam Speaker, and I ask that the minister withdraw.
MADAM SPEAKER: Whilst I did not hear it because of the noise at the front of the chamber, Mr Rattenbury, would you care to withdraw if you believe your language was unparliamentary.
Mr Rattenbury: I do not believe it is an unparliamentary term, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Did you use the language “glass jaws”?
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