Page 4597 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 20 November 1991
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MR BERRY: Okay; that is fine. That is what I say about the firebug screaming about the smoke. They do exactly the same sorts of things. They are the sorts of answers we screamed about when we were in opposition. But you are in opposition now and you can scream as much as you like; you will get the answers that the Government decides to give you in relation to the questions you raise in accordance with the standing orders as agreed to by the Speaker. The issue of the provision of board finance is another matter, which will be dealt with in the censure motion. This matter of public importance is merely public grandstanding. It is meaningless. Mr Speaker, none of the accusations have been made out.
MR SPEAKER: That concludes the discussion.
PAPER
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): Mr Speaker, I table the government response to the final report of the ACT Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Cultural Activities and Facilities. I will seek to speak to this at the earliest occasion.
MINISTER FOR HEALTH
Motion of Censure
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (5.14): Mr Speaker, I move the motion that I foreshadowed earlier.
MR SPEAKER: You need leave to do so.
MR KAINE: I was hoping that I could get by without that; but if necessary, Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move the motion that I foreshadowed earlier.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: I will read it out again so that everybody is clear on what the motion is. I move:
That the ACT Legislative Assembly censures the Minister for Health, Mr Berry, for his persistent behaviour in contempt of the Assembly and its committees, exemplified in his obstinate refusal to respond to legitimate questions, despite the claimed commitment by the Chief Minister to accountability and open government and despite the normal convention of Ministerial accountability.
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