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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (24 May) . . Page.. 1755 ..
Mr Humphries: You are closing the debate when other members wish to speak in the debate. You have no right to close the debate before the debate is finished. Mr Speaker, on the basis that Mr Berry does not have the right to rise in the chamber at this point-
MR BERRY: I do have the right.
MR SPEAKER: No, you do not have the right. You are closing the debate.
Mr Humphries: On that basis, Mr Speaker, I rise and move that the Assembly do now adjourn.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I wish to ascertain whether there are other members who wish to participate in this debate.
MR BERRY: Maybe I can be of assistance, Mr Speaker. I seek leave to move two amendments which have been circulated in my name.
MR SPEAKER: We are still in the in-principle stage.
MR BERRY: Okay. Mr Speaker, I seek leave to speak.
MR SPEAKER: To speak without closing the debate?
Mr BERRY: Yes.
Leave not granted.
MR SPEAKER: You will be called later in the debate anyway.
Mr Berry: I understand that.
MR SPEAKER: Okay. Mr Humphries, if you are going to move anything you have to move initially that the debate be adjourned.
Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries ) adjourned.
Motion (by Mr Humphries ) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
MR BERRY
(10.15): Mr Speaker, as I said earlier when I was speaking to this matter, this has been an outrageous misrepresentation of the factual situation in relation to the Occupational Health and Safety Commission. It was a matter of significant
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