Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Resume your seat.

Opposition members interjecting—

I know, but this is—you would like a direct answer to that, Member for Lindsay. You'd like a yes/no to that, right? Well, I can't—

Honourable members interjecting—

Order! It's the same thing. I can't help you with that, because the standing orders don't allow me to direct the Prime Minister to answer the question how you'd like it to be answered. But, if you're asking a question about a statement and the Prime Minister's reading the statement about that and he's not talking about anything else, he's being very directly relevant. I've got a list here, Leader of the Opposition, of all Speakers that have refused to take points of order. We can go through that list, but, at this stage, I'm just giving everyone fair warning: unless it's about the person not being on topic—not because you don't like the answer—I'll start to not take the points of order. While the Prime Minister is giving direct conference, I want everyone to be crystal clear moving forward.

See this speech in context