Page 33 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 22 February 1994
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MR LAMONT: The notice paper this afternoon says that you are to be appointed a member of this committee.
Mr Kaine: It is not on any notice paper that I have seen.
MR LAMONT: I will speak slowly. The daily program says:
Standing and Select Committee - Membership. Mr Humphries, by leave, to move motion to discharge and appoint Members to the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure and the Select Committee on the Establishment of the ACT Public Service.
Mr Kaine: That is nothing to do with me.
MR LAMONT: I understand that it is, certainly in the discussions that have been held by your party. Have they not told you, Mr Kaine - - -
Mr Kaine: No.
MR LAMONT: Have they not told you that you are about to become a member of the select committee?
Mr De Domenico: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. The topic of the matter of public importance is "Lost opportunities for public benefit - the failure of the Follett Government to provide direction on the establishment of the new ACT Government Service". Madam Speaker, Mr Lamont ought to be told to speak on that subject, and not on what may happen in the future in relation to the notice paper.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Lamont, I think that your attention has been brought to the subject in hand.
MR LAMONT: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I can understand why Mr De Domenico was obviously embarrassed; he has not even told Mr Kaine that they are about to appoint him to a select committee. Had Mr Kaine received that briefing and joined that committee, I am absolutely confident that he would not have raised this MPI this afternoon.
Mr Kaine: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I do not think that it is within the standing orders of this Assembly for any member to talk about what may or may not be going to happen in the future. It is sheer speculation about what this Assembly might do at some future time. I suggest that he confine himself to the matter before him and deal with facts, not speculation.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Lamont, please proceed.
MR LAMONT: Thank you. Madam Speaker, I have been advised by the Liberal Party that they are proposing, this afternoon, to change the representation by appointing Mr Kaine to the Select Committee on the Establishment of the ACT Public Service and removing Mr De Domenico. I can understand, probably, why they have not told Mr Kaine that, and I can also understand why they want to remove Mr De Domenico.
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