Page 2125 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 15 August 2006

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Mr Smyth: On a point of order—

MR SPEAKER: If you are going to try to use points of order to avoid this question being put, you are wasting your time. I am not going to allow that to happen.

Question put:

That the question be now put.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 9		Noes 6
Mr Barr	Mr Gentleman	Mrs Dunne	Mr Stefaniak
Mr Berry	Mr Hargreaves	Mr Mulcahy
Mr Corbell	Ms Porter	Mr Pratt
Dr Foskey	Mr Stanhope	Mr Seselja
Ms Gallagher		Mr Smyth

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Question put:

That Mr Stefaniak’s motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 6		Noes 9
Mrs Dunne	Mr Stefaniak	Mr Barr	Mr Gentleman
Mr Mulcahy		Mr Berry	Mr Hargreaves
Mr Pratt		Mr Corbell	Ms Porter
Mr Seselja		Dr Foskey	Mr Stanhope
Mr Smyth		Ms Gallagher

Question so resolved in the negative.

Sitting suspended from 12.24 to 2.30 pm.

Questions without notice

Schools—closures

MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the minister for education. I refer to comments by your colleague Ms MacDonald at the recent Labor Party conference about the government’s plans to close 39 schools. She said:

I do not believe that this process … could have been handled any worse than this Minister has done.

Why have you handled this process so badly?

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