Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

My tolerance, and the risk of getting favourable responses to points of order, is not helped by the advice that I seem to get when people sit down and continue on. I indicated to an earlier point of order about relevance that in the crafting of the question there was reference to how the plan had been received. I also indicated that I would listen carefully to the matters that the minister had got to and was now raising. I will continue to listen carefully. As I have indicated before—again, if people would like to read Practiceunder different administrations, very applicable suggestions by procedures committees have been ignored, and so, in the circular fashion of ‘what comes around goes around’ in this place, I think that that is what we confront at the moment. The minister has the call and he is responding to the question. I will listen carefully to the matter that he is putting, and the matter must relate to the question.

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