Page 2349 - Week 07 - Thursday, 17 August 2006
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Much information needs to be put to the house. Part of the information that I want to put to the house comes from the manager of committees. The manager of committees said, “I confirm that a pair system does not operate in committees and has never operated either here or federally.”
Mr Corbell: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Mr Smyth is just abusing the forms of this place. Mr Smyth has moved a motion to suspend standing orders. It is not open to him to enter into the question he wants to talk about if standing orders are suspended. It is open to him to explain why standing orders should be suspended but not to abuse the forms of this place and seek to use it as a vehicle to make the explanation for which he has already been refused leave.
MR SMYTH: On the point of order: what was said was that there is no justification or basis. I have asked leave to prove that there is a justification and a basis for what was done.
MR SPEAKER: The question before the house is that the standing orders be suspended.
MR SMYTH: So that I may make an explanation about what was said in relation to the refusal of the pair—the supposed pair.
MR SPEAKER: You should confine your comments to the reasons for the suspension of standing orders and not go into the matter that you are seeking to debate.
MR SMYTH: This is the reason for the suspension, Mr Speaker. You seek the reason they should be suspended and I have to give you that reason. That reason is that we have advice that what Mr Stanhope said is not true.
MR SPEAKER: The question is that the standing orders be suspended. You can either address it or not address it.
MR SMYTH: Members are entitled to have time in the house to make explanations where they believe they have been misrepresented. If it does not come under standing order 46—
MR SPEAKER: Are you going to address the question before the house?
MR SMYTH: Yes, I am coming to that.
MR SPEAKER: No, you are going to come to it straightaway.
MR SMYTH: I am coming to it straightaway, Mr Speaker. Once one has not been extended the courtesy of standing order 46 one then seeks leave. I would like the leave because I think I can correct what has been said on the record, which is not true.
MR SPEAKER: Leave has been denied. The question is that the standing orders be suspended.
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