Page 4065 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR BARR: Mr Doszpot indicated in his question—
Mr Hargreaves: Point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: One moment, Mr Barr. Stop the clocks, thank you.
Mr Hargreaves: Mr Hanson just said across the chamber to Mr Barr, “Are you going to cover it up just like Katy?” I ask him to withdraw that.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, it is an imputation. I invite you to withdraw it.
Mr Hanson: On the point of order, Mr Speaker, I do not think that the claim that it is going to be covering something up is an imputation. This is clearly something that we have had substantive motions in this chamber about before—about Ms Gallagher’s behaviour. I was simply asking the question. The fact that Ms Gallagher has covered up the bullying accusations at Calvary hospital has been the subject of a substantive motion in this place and I was simply asking the question of Mr Barr as to whether he is going to take the same action. I do not think that it is in any way a breach of the standing orders.
MR SPEAKER: I see your point, Mr Hanson; nonetheless, it needs to be debated in a substantive motion, not in an interjection. That does not provide it with cover. I ask you to withdraw the comment.
Mr Hanson: I withdraw.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Barr, you have the floor.
MR BARR: As it would appear the opposition have grasped, there are processes that are available to staff members of the Canberra Institute of Technology who may feel aggrieved by a variety of particular issues.
Mr Smyth: What did you do, Andrew? Did you investigate?
MR BARR: I do not have an investigative responsibility in this matter.
Mr Smyth: You have a ministerial responsibility.
MR BARR: I do not have an investigative responsibility. We have appropriate legal avenues and appropriate authorities for staff who are aggrieved to undertake. They are pursuing those avenues. It is not my responsibility to undertake, nor will I—
Mr Smyth interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Smyth.
MR BARR: a shadow investigation of a particular task that is rightly, in legislation, delegated to either the Chief Executive of the Canberra Institute of Technology or the
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