Page 3005 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 17 October 2007
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motion. But the point that we are making, Mr Speaker, is that it is private members’ day. The subject of the motion is a matter on which I would imagine a number of people would want to speak. The Chief Minister talks about yesterday. Yes, we brought on a motion to start with.
Mr Stanhope: And then at 5 o’clock you said you wanted five minutes to debate working families and took an hour.
MR STEFANIAK: There is no reason why this motion could not have been first up on the daily program.
Mr Stanhope: You asked for five minutes and took an hour.
MR STEFANIAK: That would have meant that when you shut down debate yesterday at about 5 minutes past 12—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Mulcahy interjecting—
Mr Stanhope: You are the Liberal Party, Richard—you. You asked for five minutes and took one hour.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, order, please.
MR STEFANIAK: When you shut down debate yesterday at about five minutes past 12, we would have debated your motion before lunch yesterday, Chief Minister. Because it is a motion by leave, you could have put it right up at the top of the list yesterday, and even after our so-called stunt—you cut it off anyway, our motion, at about five past twelve—we could then have debated this.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Stefaniak has the floor.
MR STEFANIAK: I actually do not know why it did not come on yesterday. It is beyond me, and really it is for the government to organise its business there.
Mr Stanhope: You weren’t here, Bill. Ask your colleagues why it didn’t come on.
MR STEFANIAK: I was attending to my sick wife.
Mr Stanhope: Ask your colleagues why it didn’t come on, Bill. They know.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister.
MR STEFANIAK: As much as anything, if you had put this at the top of the list, it would have come on at five past 12 yesterday. Now, I would imagine a number of people want to speak to this. I actually do not know why we had a motion about
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