Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I present a chart showing the program of sittings for 2015. Copies of the program have been placed on the table. I ask leave of the House to move that the program be agreed to.

Leave granted.

I move:

That the program of sittings for 2015 be agreed to.

In doing so I note that we have fortuitously been able to ensure that the sitting schedule does not impinge on school holidays and other aspects which this year's did seem to cross over. We have listened to our colleagues in this chamber. I have four children of school age of my own, so I am well aware of the issues surrounding parenting and the sitting schedule. But we have managed to avoid sittings during the school holidays and still have above-average sittings periods for the 2015 year.

Question agreed to.