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occasions. But the strength of the committee system in this Assembly - if we can allow it to do its job properly - is that it does give due consideration to the important issues of the time; it does not consider in haste. I think we have shown in this report that the committee system can work very well.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General): Mr Speaker, I seek to make a short statement. I claim to have been misrepresented.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, the Hansard will record some interjections from Mr Berry calling upon me to apologise for some allegations. I draw the house's attention to the Hansard of 26 April 1990, pages 1348 through to 1350. In that Hansard record is a full and unqualified apology in relation to the matter that Mr Berry referred to. I think it is typical of Mr Berry to make further allegations. I will read it into the record.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. Mr Collaery should stick to the issue upon which he has been misrepresented. We are quite prepared to listen, but we are not prepared to listen to a diatribe.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented in that it is alleged that I have not apologised about a matter. It is a matter that Mr Moore referred to, and my comments - about the unreasonable suspicions of the community groups at the time self-government was forced upon us - were made on the resignation of Paul Whalan. It is in the record and I stand by it.
Mr Wood: It was not full, nor was it unqualified.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Wood!
Mr Wood: It was a very paltry apology, if I might say - and thank you for allowing me to say it. I appreciate it.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Wood, please rise off your bottom when you speak.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented again and I wish to read into the record my remarks of 26 April 1990.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Collaery.
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