Page 2546 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 9 August 2016

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Mr Rattenbury interjecting—

MR DOSZPOT: Is he the Speaker or—

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot, your words were that you did not know what the Chief Minister was drinking.

MR DOSZPOT: Why is that—

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: That is an imputation on his character and I ask you to withdraw.

MR DOSZPOT: Okay; I will withdraw, Madam Deputy Speaker.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you.

MR DOSZPOT: So among—

Mr Rattenbury interjecting—

MR DOSZPOT: Is he allowed to keep interjecting, Madam Deputy Speaker?

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Fair cop. Everyone else gets it, Mr Doszpot. Please continue.

MR DOSZPOT: Fair cop? Well, he seems to get away with more than normal.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: You are not reflecting on the chair’s decision, are you, Mr Doszpot?

MR DOSZPOT: Beg your pardon?

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: You are not making an inference about the Speaker’s decision, are you, Mr Doszpot?

MR DOSZPOT: I would not dream of it.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Continue.

MR DOSZPOT: I am not sure where the Chief Minister got the idea from, but he was obviously drinking $3 sparkling water from the city restaurant that he keeps talking about so often. Among other figures plucked from somewhere that has not seen the light of day for many a year, he suggests—let me quote, because it is so out there—the following:

More than 530 education staff will be sacked, so hundreds of teachers will be torn from our classrooms. And with the ACT Government funding non-government schools, the Liberals’ cuts will be felt in Catholic and independent school classrooms too.

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