Members

Member for Bragg, Naming

The SPEAKER: The deputy leader is named.

Mr GARDNER: Point of order, sir: under the sessional orders, the deputy leader having been ejected from the chamber, I am not clear that the standing orders allow you to name her.

The SPEAKER: They certainly do. The member for Morialta may wish to get in touch with the deputy leader to avail herself of an opportunity to reply to the naming.

Mr MARSHALL: Supplementary, sir.

The SPEAKER: Well, we have to deal with that procedure.

Mr GARDNER: Point of order, sir: if the deputy leader has been ejected from the chamber, do the sessional orders allow her to return for your naming, which you say you are entitled to do?

The SPEAKER: I will waive them to the extent necessary for her to respond to the naming, but she was certainly in full cry after being asked to withdraw.

The honourable member for Bragg having been summoned to the chamber:

The SPEAKER: Deputy leader.

Ms CHAPMAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker, and thank you for the opportunity to give a response in respect of your directive that I be named in respect of the—

The SPEAKER: No, I name you. I don't give a directive to anyone. I name you.

Ms CHAPMAN: Thank you, sir, for that correction.

The SPEAKER: I am now giving you an opportunity to explain your misconduct after my earlier ruling.

Ms CHAPMAN: I thank you for that, sir. Can I say in my defence to my behaviour today that I have been so provoked by the failure of the Minister for Mental Health to protect our most vulnerable people here in South Australia and, in particular—

The SPEAKER: The deputy leader will address her appalling conduct.

Ms CHAPMAN: In my submission to you, sir, my behaviour was so provoked by the failure of the minister to protect our most vulnerable people—

The SPEAKER: No—

Ms CHAPMAN: —and in the circumstance—

The SPEAKER: —the deputy leader will be seated. She is not addressing the substance of the matter. She is not addressing her appalling breach of parliamentary behaviour. She cannot justify it by reference to the political discussion of the day. She stood in the gangway and screamed and gesticulated and she is not addressing that behaviour, other than to say she is dissatisfied with the policies of the government. That is insufficient.

Mr PISONI: Point of order, sir: on previous occasions, you have excused ministers breaching the standing orders, using the excuse that they were provoked—

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley—

Mr PISONI: —by the opposition.

The SPEAKER: —is named. We will deal first with the naming of the deputy leader.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:16): I move:

That the apology not be accepted.

Motion carried.

Mr WILLIAMS: Point of order, Mr Speaker: that is a motion that can be subject to debate by the house.

The SPEAKER: No, it can't. Would the deputy leader please leave the chamber.