Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! Both of you will sit down or you will be invited to leave the chamber as a job lot. Often I am accused of ruining the theatre of this place, but this is a farce. The best way for me to deal with this is to minimise the discussion and debate on it, and I was willing to do that. If accusations of deliberate misrepresentation are contained in this matter, that should have been addressed in a motion. But I am willing to take the material away, the only purpose being to examine it—because I wish to minimise the argy-bargy that it appears people want to enter into. I was aware of some proposed proceedings later in the week, on Thursday. I have not bothered to review those, but everybody should be very careful about how these very important aspects of parliamentary procedure are used. That is my final statement on this.

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