Page 4126 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 22 October 2019
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Madam Speaker, what we are doing—and you saw this in our infrastructure plan—is ensuring that we have the best transport opportunities for people, particularly in my electorate in Tuggeranong, into the future. You would have seen in the announcement light rail going to Tuggeranong in the infrastructure plan.
Ms Lawder interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: That is enough, Ms Lawder. Mr Parton, you have the floor.
MR PARTON: Minister, how many motor vehicles do you own and what makes and models are they, because I am just interested for the chamber to hear?
MADAM SPEAKER: That question is out of order.
Mrs Dunne: I rise on a point of order. Could you give a reason for this?
MADAM SPEAKER: It is because it does not relate to the minister’s ministerial and administrative responsibilities.
Mrs Dunne: The minister is the Minister the Planning and Land Management and has made a comment about the appropriateness of driving to work. It is a reasonable thing for the Assembly and the people of the ACT to know how this minister fills his garage or not as the case may be—
Members interjecting—
Mrs Dunne: because he has made policy statements that particular things are an outmoded dream.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, there is no point of order. It is not within his ministerial scope.
Mr Hanson: Madam Speaker, on the point of order. You will recall that in that answer that Mr Gentleman gave previously, he also made a particular sneer at one brand of car, an Audi. So we are very interested to hear what he drives—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, there is no point of order.
Mr Hanson: If a particular vehicle—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, there is no point of order. Resume your seat.
Mr Hanson: Why is it okay for him, if you can clarify, Madam Speaker, to talk about particular brands of vehicle that people—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson!
Mr Hanson: should or shouldn’t drive but not explain to this Assembly what he drives?
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