Results 781-800 of 2,156 for speaker:Tom Parlon

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, to delete lines 9 to 19 and substitute the following: "5A.—(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a person may initially be appointed to be an established civil servant on the basis of a probationary contract. (2) Where a civil servant to whom subsection (1) refers completes the probationary period concerned to the satisfaction of the...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: That has nothing to do with the legislation. The Deputy should direct the matter to the appropriate person.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: It is not abolished. If the Deputy puts down a question, she will find out.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: Deputy Burton would prefer to make unsubstantiated claims in the House than put down a question to find out the facts for herself.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: One would not put a prison on a farm.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: Deputy Burton is the Labour Party spokesperson on finance. Why does she not table a question to the Minister for Finance? If the Deputy tables a question she will receive an answer.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: It is hardly appropriate to raise the matter on Report Stage of legislation.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: I would have raised it in the appropriate manner a long time ago.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: Deputy Burton should table a parliamentary question precisely on the issue to which she referred. I sat beside the Minister, Deputy Cowen, during the last Question Time and Deputy Burton ranted, raved and upset the Minister to a considerable extent.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: It might have been the Deputy's intention to annoy him but no specific questions were asked, which the Deputy evidently wishes to do, as at every opportunity this afternoon she has raised this issue.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: As the Deputy has a bee in her bonnet about it, I suggest she tables a parliamentary question on it. I look forward to being seated beside the Minister when——

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: ——he will give a comprehensive answer.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: The speaking note I have will show that events which have taken place in regard to the Rights Commissioner have prompted this measure. This legislation has been going through the House for some time. Section 7 inserts a new section 5A into the 1956 Act which currently provides that both established and unestablished civil servants can be appointed either for a specified period of time or for...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: I do not understand what Deputy Burton is talking about either.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: When it comes to tetchy responses, I would not hold a candle to Deputy Burton. As regards my comment on her parliamentary question, her attempt to tar everybody in the Government with one brush by implying that they are not fully clear in their tax affairs is what upset Deputy Cowen. He made it clear that he did not take that on board.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: The Deputy made some references——

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: ——on which I did not pick up.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: Deputy Burton more or less accused everybody in the Government of not being compliant in their tax affairs.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: That is my recollection.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Tom Parlon: The Deputy made a reference to the Virgin Islands which was very vague.