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As the committee subsequently found and reported to the Assembly, Mrs Carnell's provisions were superior because of the greater protection that they provided to whistleblowers in this community. As a result, there had to be a decision at the time of consideration of the Public Sector Management Bill as to what would happen with those whistleblowing provisions. Would we go with Mrs Carnell's Bill, or would we deal with the Government's Bill? My clear recollection was that we decided that it was preferable to pass the Government's Bill on the proviso that we would come back and look specifically at the question of whistleblowing. Like it or not, inherent in that arrangement was that, if we preferred Mrs Carnell's approach, as subsequently transpired, we would have to come back and repeal the Government's legislation. That was the clear understanding that I came away from those proceedings with, and that is what has happened today.
Amendment agreed to.
Remainder of Bill, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
COMMUNITY REFERENDUM BILL 1994
[COGNATE BILL AND REPORT:
ELECTORS INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM BILL 1994 [No. 2]
COMMUNITY INITIATED REFERENDUMS - SELECT COMMITTEE - REPORT]
Debate resumed from 24 August 1994, on motion by Mrs Carnell:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with order of the day No. 5, Electors Initiative and Referendum Bill 1994, and order of the day No. 1, Assembly business, report of the Select Committee on Community Initiated Referendums? There being no objection, that course will be followed.
MR STEVENSON (5.22): I suggest that the report of the Select Committee on CIR shows us that the members of the committee were not competent to comment fairly; and it would appear that they were biased.
Mr Lamont: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. That is an adverse reflection on members of this Assembly, and I believe that it should be withdrawn.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, would you confine your remarks to the issues that are before us.
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