Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

We do have, I gather, an informal arrangement whereby certain ministers are here at certain times. I am advised that it is not a matter for the chair to enforce the time limits for each department. Given the fact that individual ministers and colleagues are here to examine expenditure in relation to various portfolios, there has been up until now a courtesy that one understands that there is broadly about half an hour for each portfolio. The minister has just resumed his seat. His interrogation commenced eight minutes late. We are really on half an hour.

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