Page 3544 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 18 September 2019
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MADAM SPEAKER: You stood on a point of order within 15 seconds. I will let the minister continue, but go to the points of those questions, please, minister.
MR RAMSAY: I understand that there has been a range of very specific consultations. They have been taken in a number of ways. Some of them have been email conversations; some of them have been personal conversations.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR RAMSAY: My understanding is that—
Mr Wall: Point of order, Madam Speaker. I ask that, under standing order 118, the minister be concise and directly relevant in his answer. I also draw your attention to standing order 118(b) which states that a minister answering a question shall not debate the subject to which the question refers. The minister’s answer has been more a debate about the question as opposed to the very specifics of the question put to him.
Mr Gentleman: Point of order, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Stop the clock.
Mr Hanson: Are you going to stop the clock?
MADAM SPEAKER: It is my call, but I will at this point.
Mr Gentleman: On the point of order, Madam Speaker, we are 50 seconds into the available time. He was interrupted earlier, before this. The minister should be allowed to provide the answer in the available time.
Mrs Dunne interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Are you quite finished, Mrs Dunne? I am going to start the clock. The minister has been interjected on. He has had a number of interjections in his answer. The question you are asking is simple. I cannot direct him other than to be relevant. I believe he is being relevant to this point. You have 30 seconds, minister.
Mrs Dunne: On the point of order, Madam Speaker, I know that you cannot direct the minister how to answer the question, but you do have the discretion, if he is not answering the question in a directly relevant way, to sit the minister down. You have never exercised that. It might be time that you considered it.
MADAM SPEAKER: I also have been very reluctant to warn for unparliamentary behaviour—continued interjection. If you want me to go down the path of the letter of the law of the standing orders, next time someone interjects, they will be warned. Minister, you have 30 seconds left.
MR RAMSAY: In relation to the particular gaming regulation, my understanding is that one of the clubs that has been linked with that has been Eastlake.
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