Page 158 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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Mr Smyth: So you did not get a—
MS GALLAGHER: No, I did not get a phone call. That is the point. There was no notice. We turned up to a meeting and—
Mr Hanson: Often the case with family matters, is it not?
MS GALLAGHER: In 15 minutes, I think we could have sorted it out and actually rearranged it so that it could be useful for you. That is what I am saying. We missed the opportunity. I am happy to reschedule it, because you still do not understand the growth formula issues. But the government will happily support Ms Bresnan’s amendments to my amendment. I have clarified the status of the TCH walk-in centre. The funding is there in full from 2014-15 and has been accounted for in our planning going forward across the forward estimates in health.
Ms Bresnan’s amendments to Ms Gallagher’s proposed amendment agreed to.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question now is that Ms Gallagher’s amendment, as amended, be agreed to.
MR HANSON (Molonglo) (11.33): We will not be supporting this amendment. It is an amendment full of excuses that, as I said before, does not explain—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, are you closing the debate?
MR HANSON: No, I am talking to the amendment. I spoke to Ms Bresnan’s amendments to Ms Gallagher’s amendment. I am now speaking to Ms Gallagher’s amendment as amended. Like the Chief Minister, you, Madam Deputy Speaker, seem not to understand the way this process works. In this case Ms Gallagher moved an amendment, which is not a good one. It is an E-grade amendment, and I have simply supported Ms Bresnan’s amendments because they slightly improve Ms Gallagher’s amendment, knowing as I do—because I have been advised—that the Greens will be supporting this amendment. Ms Gallagher understands that. If she does not, I do not know what she has been doing in this place for the last 10 or 11 years.
Ms Gallagher: Working hard. As opposed to you, Jeremy.
MR HANSON: Not hard enough to understand the process. Let me explain it for you again, Ms Gallagher, because you seem not to understand. You put in a dud amendment. The Greens have amended that to make it slightly better. So, knowing that the Greens are going to support your amendment, I have supported the Greens’ amendments and I will not be supporting yours.
Ms Gallagher: But you didn’t vote for it.
MR HANSON: It went through on the voices. It is interesting, Madam Deputy Speaker, because you have allowed Ms Gallagher here to make constant interruptions in the last two minutes that I have been speaking—interjections, questions and
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