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Thursday 31 March 2016 DRAFT HANSARD SIXTH DAY _______________________ Thursday 31 March 2016 DRAFT HANSARD ______________________ Subject: Page No.: MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE – STATEMENT BY THE ACTING SPEAKER ...................................................................... 1 QUESTIONS .............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Upgrade Tokua Airport .................................................................................................................................................. 5 Wangan Fisheries Project ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Budget Allocations for Maprik Projects. ......................................................................................................................... 9 Corruption at UNRE..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Kairuku Law and Order................................................................................................................................................ 15 Tapini Highway Funding .............................................................................................................................................. 17 Supplementary Question :Misappropriation of Funds Works Department .................................................................. 18 PERSONAL EXPLANATION .................................................................................................................................................. 19 MOTION BY LEAVE ................................................................................................................................................................ 20 SUSPENSION OF STANDING ORDERS – REARRANGEMENT OF BUSINESS ................................................................ 21 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (COURT RESTRUCTURE) LAW 2015 .......................................................................... 21 Second Reading ........................................................................................................................................................ 21 MANAM RESETTLEMENT AUTHORITY BILL 2015 ............................................................................................................. 22 In Committee .............................................................................................................................................................. 22 Third Reading ............................................................................................................................................................ 23 MOTION BY LEAVE ................................................................................................................................................................ 24 SUSPENSION OF STANDING ORDERS – REARRANGEMENT OF BUSINESS ................................................................ 24 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (DUAL CITIZENSHIP) LAW 2015 .................................................................................. 24 Third Reading ............................................................................................................................................................ 24 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S OWNERSHIP OF HYDROCARBONS AND MINERALS AND THE CONSOLIDATION AND COMMERCIALISATION OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S BUSINESS) LAW 2014 ........................................................................................................................................................... 25 Third Reading ............................................................................................................................................................ 25 ORGANIC LAW ON PAPAUA NEW GUINEA’S OWNERSHIP OF HYDRO ARBON AND MINERALS AND THE CONSOLIDATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF PAPAUA NEW GUINEA’S BUSINESS LAW 2014 .................. 28 Third Reading ............................................................................................................................................................ 28 ADJOURNMENT ......................................................................................................................................................... 32 SIXTH DAY Thursday 31 March 2016 The Acting Speaker (Mr Aide Ganasi) took the Chair at 10.00 a.m.. There being no quorum present, Mr Acting Speaker stated that he would resume the Chair after the ringing of the Bells. Sitting suspended. Mr Acting Speaker, again took the Chair at 10.50 a.m., and invited the Member for Kundiawa-Gembogl, Honourable Tobias Kulang to say the Prayer: “Once again we come before you this morning, thank you for this Nation, for its people, for the abundant resources that we enjoy and freedom to you once again. We thank you for the Leaders appointed by the beautiful people of the land as we gather here for yet another day of decision making. We ask dear Lord that you will embrace us with your spirit of wisdom and understanding that we will be able to make decisions that will affect your people in this generation and the next generation in a positive way. Thank you Father we commit this session into your hands and we all pray the prayer that your son taught us. Our Father who art in Heaven hello be your name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily breath and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver from evil. For thy, is the Kingdom, the power and the glory from now and forever, Amen!” MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE – STATEMENT BY THE ACTING SPEAKER Mr ACTING SPEAKER – Honourable Members the Chair would like to make a statement with regard to the vote of no confidence. Dr Allan Marat – Point of Order! 1 Mr ACTING SPEAKER – There will be no point of order entertained. Mr Sam Basil – Point of Order! That is why he is making a point of order. Mr ACTING SPEAKER – It will not be entertained. I will make a statement. Mr Don Polye – Point of Order! Mr Acting Speaker – (Members interjecting) Mr ACTING SPEAKER – No point of order will be entertained. I will make a statement. (Members interjecting) Mr ACTING SPEAKER – Member for Rabaul can you sit down. Dr Allan Marat – Thank you, God bless you (Members interjecting) Mr ACTING SPEAKER – Mr Acting Speaker – Honourable Members a motion for vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, Mr Peter O’Neill proposed by Mr Sam Basil and seconded by the Grand Chief, Sir Michael Somare nominating, Honourable Don Polye as the alternate prime minister pursuant to Standing Order 22 was received by me on Tuesday 22 March 2016, and subsequently put before the Permanent Parliamentary Committee on Private Business. The Permanent Parliamentary Committee on Private Business sat to discuss the motion as well as private business before the National Parliament and resolved that the document might not contain the required number of signatures under Section 145 of the Constitution. The fact that some signatories to the motion denied having signed the motion and one member is currently suspended from Office. To support – 2 02/06 (Mr Sam Basil interjecting) Mr ACTING SPEAKER – I will continue to make a statement. To support the process of due diligence, letters were sent out to all members that supported the motion to ensure they had signed the motion and were in support of it. The Committee received replies from the majority of papers and confirmed that there were nine members that supported the motion, seconded it and were in support of it. The Committee also established that the member for Vanimo-Green open electorate is currently suspended by law from exercising his duties and functions as a member of parliament; irrespective of his Supreme Court appeal. This prevented his signing and prevented his support of the motion. The Committee also established that the Governor of Morobe, Kasiga Kelly Naru signed three copies of the initial motion submitted on the 3rd of November 2015 but did not sign or supported the current motion dated 22 March 2016. Instead a copy of the initial motion was used and submitted with the attachment of the initial signatures of the even though the member did indicated his support of the current proposed motion. The Committee further established on the basis that there was inadequate support for the motion. It failed to meet the minimum requirement of section 145 of the Constitution. Therefore the propose motion failed to meeting the procedural requirement for tabling. On this basis, the Committee rejected the motion outright. Furthermore, the Committee after careful consideration find out that there may be a possible breach of parliamentary privileges in the unauthorised use of member’s signatures. They felt that the member should be referred to the permanent parliamentary privileges committee for further investigation against the deputy leader of the opposition as the proposer and the initiator of the motion. Mr Don Polye – Point of Order! Mr ACTING SPEAKER – Similarly, the chair received the return response, under the letter head of the deputy leader of opposition which in the view of the chair was an abuse of parliamentary privileges, in the wording imputed that the Chair was biased in his decision making due to the fact
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