Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

We dealt with this matter yesterday, just in terms of questions to the Speaker. I will state it again to the House. It's for the administration of the parliament. Just so we're clear: if people want to ask me a question—everyone thinks you can ask me a question about anything. It's narrow, under the standing orders. It's the operation of the House, something that has happened within the building and those sorts of questions, not, 'Could you please give me your opinion about standing orders and what's happened.' If that happened and you felt that at the time, it would be an appropriate time to raise it then. I appreciate the spirit with which it was raised. I don't understand—I'm sorry, I haven't observed the staring—

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