House debates Questions without Notice

Pensions and Benefits

Tuesday, 16 June 2020 House of Representatives

Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

2:54 pm

Before I recognise the member for Maribyrnong, I was just about to intervene and say, as I've said to the minister before, that he's entitled to a preamble, but that's now approaching a minute. The question was very tight. It had a statement of fact that was necessary for the specific question and there was no commentary or debate in the matter. So, as I said, the minister is entitled to a preamble, but he now needs to bring himself to the specifics of the question or wind up his answer.

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