LA rolls on as legislators struggle to complete agenda
(CNS): Legislators threw in the towel Friday night after a mammoth day’s work dealing with a significant amount of amendments to the bills brought to the parliament during this meeting but before key legislation was completed. The premier had hoped to end this current Legislative Assembly meeting Friday, even though the agenda was jam-packed, including almost 30 bills, several government motions, dozens of parliamentary questions, a list of private member’s motions and a catalog of reports to be tabled.
MLAs failed to complete the ambitious workload Friday night. At around 9:30pm the committee session was adjourned when members all agreed they could no longer cope with the work and also indicated that it was unfair to the Legislative Assembly support staff.
The MLAs were due to return to the committee meeting Monday to deal with a small number of amendments to the Election Amendment Bill and a significant number of changes to the new draft Education Bill.
Government also has a number of motions that were presented earlier in the session that need be be addressed before the LA is adjourned until the New Year and what is almost certainly going to be the last meeting before the House is dissolved by the governor in March ahead of the election campaign.
What a laugh, at work for once in a blue moon and we’re expected to be impressed, and – to add insult to injury – sympathetic that the lazy bunch of AWOLS can’t get through. Pull the other one, sportsfan, it’s got bells on it!
Sit more often stop rushing through half cocked legislation and earn your $$$ is that to much
They actually do more than turn up at the LA you do realise that right?
Like fishing, you mean?
Meet once in a blue moon and its too much work….could they pass a law so we all have those hours with fat salaries?