Page 4195 - Week 14 - Thursday, 25 October 1990
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MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I am certainly happy to take the matter up. I will speak to Mr Prowse, the Speaker, about the matter. I have been advised by the Clerk that there may not be much that he can do about the matter anyway. What was your other point, Mr Berry?
Mr Berry: All that I required in my point - - -
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just in relation to a ruling?
Mr Berry: My view about the issue is that it is just a matter of taking advice about it. I certainly would not move that you make a ruling on the matter now without advice.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: No, I do not intend to do that.
Mr Berry: So I just seek some advice on whether people are entitled to speak in this Assembly.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I will certainly rule that until further notice members are entitled to speak today.
Mr Berry: I accept that advice, Mr Speaker.
Ambulance Service
MR BERRY (5.47): I wish to rise in relation - - -
Mr Collaery: Mr Deputy Speaker, why does this man have the call? He rose on a point of order.
MR BERRY: Because I wanted to speak.
Mr Collaery: Is he now speaking in the adjournment debate?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, he is, Mr Collaery; that is true. He did rise on a point of order.
MR BERRY: Tonight I want to talk to the issue of ministerial responsibility. It is the responsibility of Ministers to accept what occurs in their portfolios, whatever that might be. As a former Minister I accepted that responsibility, and I expect that the current Minister who handles part of the portfolio area for which I was once responsible would accept the responsibility for what is occurring, not only in the health and education systems but also in the Ambulance Service in the ACT.
I intend to raise this issue because there are a number of factors and facts which have yet to be denied by the Minister and which are at the root of the difficulty which is being suffered by our Ambulance Service. The Minister is yet to deny that there are only 28 operational crew members - - -
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