House debates

Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Questions without Notice

Housing

2:55 pm

Photo of Milton DickMilton Dick (Speaker) | Hansard source

I want to deal with this. I also want to refer to Speaker Smith's ruling on 1 March 2017, where he ruled about policy topics. Points of order were not to be used as an opportunity to repeat the question. We've now strayed into this territory of points of order where people are simply repeating the question and adding extra things in. If you wish to take a point of order on relevance, that's okay. But, at this stage, the Prime Minister—

Let me finish what I'm saying, and then you may respond. That's the normal process. I don't interrupt you when you're on your feet. Whilst the leniency is there to allow points of order to be taken on relevance, there have been precedents where that leniency has been withdrawn. I'm not going to do that in this case. I'll hear from the manager if he's got something else to say.

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