Fire and Emergency Services (Volunteer Charters) Amendment Bill

Second Reading

Adjourned debate on second reading.

(Continued from 24 September 2015.)

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (11:29): This bill is a very important bill before this house. With the few seconds that are left—

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I remind the member that if he speaks he closes debate.

Dr McFETRIDGE: I am very conscious of that, and I hope this government—

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Everybody else needs to be conscious of that fact too. Are you on your feet, member for Newland? What is it you wish to say?

The Hon. T.R. KENYON: That the debate be adjourned.

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Apparently, as we have brought to the attention of the house, through the Chair, the member for Morphett has the call, and we are going to listen to the member for Morphett.

Dr McFETRIDGE: Thank you, ma'am. This bill is a mark 3 version of a bill I have put before this place on a number of occasions to protect South Australian CFS and SES volunteers. We need to bring this bill to a vote and we need to do it today.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: So, you have finished your remarks. Does the member for Newland have something to say?

The Hon. T.R. KENYON: Just a point of clarification: it is the tradition, certainly the custom of the house, to call the attention of the house to the fact that the closing speaker is in fact closing debate.

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. T.R. KENYON: And when you called it, I stood, so—

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I think we have to move ahead and vote on it. The question before the house is that the bill now be read a second time.

The house divided on the second reading:

Ayes 17

Noes 21

Majority 4

Second reading thus negatived.