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Mr De Domenico: Why did you not say that, Mrs Grassby?
MRS GRASSBY: Because you are so stupid that you cannot understand it. Why should I write it out because you are so stupid that you cannot understand it?
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Madam Speaker: I am sure that I have just been misrepresented slightly there, Madam Speaker. I would like to explain what I did say. I do so under standing order 47. What I actually said was that the concept is: Where everybody is a winner.
Mrs Grassby: Yes, that is right. That is what I told you - where everyone is a winner.
Mr Moore: That is what I told you.
MADAM SPEAKER: It sounds like our day in the chamber, Mr Moore.
Debate (on motion by Mr Connolly) adjourned.
POISONS AND DRUGS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
Debate resumed from 12 May 1994, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MRS CARNELL (Leader of the Opposition) (5.02): Madam Speaker, this Bill amends the Poisons and Drugs Act 1978. The principal Act lists poisons and drugs in eight schedules, sets out labelling and packaging requirements for all scheduled substances and requires sellers of Schedule 7 poisons to be licensed and users to be authorised. It also lists restricted substances which can be prescribed or supplied only by authorised medical specialists.
The purpose of the Bill is to remove from the principal Act both the list of restricted substances and the list of specialist doctors eligible to be authorised by the Medical Officer of Health to supply or prescribe these substances. Transfer of both lists to the Poisons and Drugs Regulations will facilitate keeping up to date the list of restricted substances and the eligibility of specialists who have been granted authority to prescribe them. I think that is an extremely sensible approach, Madam Speaker. It has always been very difficult to keep these lists up to date, as the lists of drugs involved and the lists of specialist doctors involved do change from time to time, and it is silly to have to amend the Act every time that happens. This is very sensible administratively and will make sure that those lists are kept up to date which do have ramifications if they are not. We will certainly be supporting this very sensible initiative.
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