Page 999 - Week 03 - Thursday, 3 April 2008

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We are not asking you to change your view. You would not ask us to change our view. The Minister for Health has said, “We have different views on this.” Absolutely! All we are asking you to do is please look at what we are asking here as a sensible request, not a delaying tactic. I find that remarkable. I find it rude. That is not our aim here at all.

I ask and urge members, including those that are in their rooms listening to this ongoing debate tonight, to please reconsider, particularly those members on the government side who are struggling with this, to allow fully their concerns to be answered and addressed. I do not see that there is any problem engaging with the commonwealth, considering that is where this issue came from in the first place. I think it makes sense for us as legislators to take that deep breath, get extra input from the commonwealth and then we can move forward. I will be supporting Mr Smyth’s amendment.

Motion (by Ms MacDonald) agreed to:

That the question be now put.

Question put:

That Mr Smyth’s amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted––

Ayes 7		Noes 10
Mrs Burke	Mr Smyth	Mr Barr	Mr Gentleman
Mrs Dunne	Mr Stefaniak	Mr Berry	Mr Hargreaves
Mr Mulcahy		Mr Corbell	Ms MacDonald
Mr Pratt		Dr Foskey	Ms Porter
Mr Seselja		Ms Gallagher	Mr Stanhope

Question so resolved in the negative.

Amendment negatived.

Question put:

That this bill be agreed to in principle.

The Assembly voted––

Ayes 10		Noes 7
Mr Barr	Mr Gentleman	Mrs Burke	Mr Smyth
Mr Berry	Mr Hargreaves	Mrs Dunne	Mr Stefaniak
Mr Corbell	Ms MacDonald	Mr Mulcahy
Dr Foskey	Ms Porter	Mr Pratt
Ms Gallagher	Mr Stanhope	Mr Seselja

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

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