Fran Bailey (McEwen, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?

Fran Bailey (McEwen, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Please proceed.

Fran Bailey (McEwen, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am advised that yesterday, while I was either waiting to speak or speaking in the Main Committee, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in this chamber claimed that I had misled this House when I asked him in question time yesterday of the current status of the Golden City Support Services in the Macedon Ranges and whether he was aware that there was now no respite bed available in the region. A question seeking information on behalf of constituents is in no way misleading the House.

Daryl Melham (Banks, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. We have yet to hear how the member was misrepresented. We are hearing argument, and I would ask you to bring her very quickly to where she has been misrepresented.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for McEwen should come to where she has been misrepresented.

Fran Bailey (McEwen, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have just referred to the question in which the minister claimed I misled the House. He further claimed that I misled my local community in regard to this project. What I said on 5 November last year—and I am happy to table it for the member for Banks—was that respite services would be boosted in the Macedon Ranges because I had secured a funding commitment of $564,000 from a re-elected coalition government.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I think the member for McEwan has now sufficiently put her case. To go further would be entering into a debate.

Fran Bailey (McEwen, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I would not do that but I do believe that the minister should apologise to me and my communities.

Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The honourable member will resume her seat.