Page 1903 - Week 06 - Thursday, 2 May 1991

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker - - -

Mr Kaine: Do not take legal advice; just do as the Speaker asks you. If you want to take legal advice, go and do it outside.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, for your information, you can seek leave to move a motion of dissent, or put it on the notice paper.

Mr Berry: Well, that is what we are about to do.

MR SPEAKER: All right. Well, please do it.

Consideration interrupted.

DISSENT FROM RULING

MR BERRY (11.54): I seek leave to move dissent from your ruling, Mr Speaker.

Leave granted.

Mr Duby: What has happened to my Bill? Hold on. You cannot do it now.

MR SPEAKER: This question supersedes the question on the Bill. When this is concluded we will go back to the Bill.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, - - -

Mr Kaine: We are going to waste another hour on useless debate while Mr Berry gets something off his chest.

MR BERRY: Well, you granted leave.

Mr Kaine: We did not. The only voices that gave you leave came from over there.

MR SPEAKER: Order! There was no voice in dissent; therefore, the Assembly gave permission for him to proceed.

Mr Duby: I said no. You must have heard me.

Mrs Grassby: You did not, Craig.

Mr Duby: Just as you did not hear him say "trotters in the trough".

Mrs Grassby: You did not. That is a furphy, Craig.

MR SPEAKER: Order! There was no dissenting voice.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, the reason I rise to challenge your ruling on this issue is that it brings this place into disrepute if - - -