Page 1479 - Week 04 - Thursday, 26 March 2009

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5,886 votes polled by Mr Coe. Anyone who knows anything about the Hare-Clark system will tell you that the biggest single advantage that candidates have is incumbency, yet Mrs Dunne, a member of this place for seven whole years, was beaten comprehensively by a person who was not even a candidate until six weeks before the election. How embarrassing for her.

I ask Mrs Dunne which one of her statements that she made yesterday is true. Is it that I turn up to shopping centres with my mobile office and stand around for a little while and then I leave or is it that I am the hardest working MLA the Assembly has ever seen? Perhaps the fact that yesterday’s comments were made under parliamentary privilege, whereas the statement in September attracted no such protection, would give us a clue as to her real opinion.

And also her disregard for constituents—Mrs Dunne, those letters that I write continually on behalf my constituents get results. They do not end up in the dead-letter office. What do you do with issues that constituents bring to you? Do you not refer them to ministers for their attention? Or have you got a dead-letter office in your office?

Question resolved in the affirmative.

The Assembly adjourned at 5.51 pm until Tuesday, 31 March 2009, at 10 am.

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