Bill Heffernan (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Alan Ferguson (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for two minutes.

Bill Heffernan (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have noted the recent division on the coal seam gas motion and I would like to most definitely—

Michael Forshaw (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You didn't turn up!

Bill Heffernan (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There is a good reason; I am dealing with something that is an emergency outside. We are well and truly going to cover this issue in the inquiry, which I will chair. This was put in the notice of motion for the rural committee on the Murray-Darling Basin inquiry as the coal seam side to it. The debate in the community is well developed. I agree there are serious issues, which include health and the issue of fracking. It has locked up in the courts for 20 years a lot of serious potential and we will certainly be dealing with every aspect of it in the coming weeks, starting in the Dalby and Gunnedah areas.