George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order again on the question of relevance. There are nine seconds to go—the minister has taken up a minute and 51 seconds. As I said to you earlier, preamble is fine but the entire answer cannot be preamble, particularly if it is to be directly relevant in accordance with the sessional order. The question was about performance indicators. With nine seconds to go, the minister has not begun to address that issue. The entire answer cannot be preamble; if that were so, it would be literally impossible for you ever to rule an answer to be not within the sessional order.