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If you do not know what is in your budget perhaps we should be—

Mr Stanhope: How is that hitting the bottom line? That is not hitting the bottom line.

MR SMYTH: Are you saying that the budget document is a lie? This is the whole point. I would have thought that you guys would have learnt from the second approp earlier this year that these people cannot be trusted on these issues.

Mr Stanhope: Rubbish!

MR SMYTH: Are you saying the Treasury’s document is wrong?

Mr Stanhope: I am saying it is not hitting our bottom line; I am saying it is not a budget item. And it is not.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope!

MR SMYTH: I am just reading you the highlights. I read your document. So the document lied? The budget is wrong?

Mr Stanhope: That is not what it says. Read the page.

MR SMYTH: What you just said is that the budget is wrong.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, members! The time has expired; there is only 15 minutes for this debate.

Question put:

That this bill be declared an urgent bill.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 11		Noes 6
Mr Barr	Ms Hunter	Mr Coe
Ms Bresnan	Ms Le Couteur	Mr Doszpot
Ms Burch	Ms Porter	Mrs Dunne
Mr Corbell	Mr Rattenbury	Mr Hanson
Ms Gallagher	Mr Stanhope	Mr Seselja
Mr Hargreaves		Mr Smyth

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Allotment of time

MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water, Minister for Energy and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (8.01): I move:

That the following times be allotted for consideration of the remaining parts of the Appropriation Bill 2009-2010:

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