Page 414 - Week 01 - Thursday, 11 December 2008
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MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Smyth, will you remain relevant, please.
MR SMYTH: It is entirely relevant, Madam Deputy Speaker. Go back and check the Hansard. You know yourself that bills were being dropped and then debated within weeks. But I will move on—
Mr Corbell: On a point of order—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Resume your seat, Mr Smyth.
Mr Corbell: Madam Deputy Speaker, Mr Smyth is deliberately ignoring your ruling. You have asked him to remain relevant and, instead of accepting your ruling with courtesy, he is simply ignoring it and insisting that he is right. He is being disorderly and you should draw his attention to that.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, you are being disorderly, Mr Smyth. Will you refrain from—
MR SMYTH: For my clarification, which part of what I said was disorderly and irrelevant?
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: You did not accept my ruling. I said that I wanted you to remain relevant and to go back to the subject of—
Mr Hargreaves: On the point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Through you to Mr Smyth, he was actually being impertinent to the chair. He said, “If you want to go and look at the Hansard you can do X.” That is unparliamentary.
Mr Seselja: On the point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker: I think what Mr Smyth was asking for was: if you could clarify which part of what he was saying was not relevant it would make it easier for him to continue in a way that is accordance with your ruling.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you. The point is that we are debating subclauses 7(4) and 7(5) and not previous legislation, Mr Smyth. That is the point I am making. Do not refer to previous legislation; refer to subclauses 7(4) and 7(5).
MR SMYTH: Thank you, Madam Speaker. If I may just comment that in estimates this sort of process has always been wide ranging. The Chief Minister introduced the concept of the ideal world and not doing things at short notice and I was responding to what he had said. If some members are allowed to make comment—
Mr Corbell: Just accept the ruling.
MR SMYTH: I accept the ruling. If some members are—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Smyth, would you please sit down. Would you accept my ruling, please? I do not want an explanation; I just want you to accept my ruling.
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