Robert Oakeshott (Lyne, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have a question for the chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. Can you, over the coming weeks, get clarification for the House on the game that has been played this week over leave? There is a backlog of, I think, at least 13 private members' votes waiting to happen, yet I understand leave is not being granted to the House for them to occur. What we have just seen here, where there is discretionary leave given for some members on some sides of the House and not for others, needs some clarity for procedures to move forward.

Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Lyne. I will ask the Speaker to look into the issue.