Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! The Manager of Opposition Business has raised a point of order that can be covered by one word: relevance. I am in no position to know the actuality of where this technical college came from, but I would assume that, in the preamble to the response, the Deputy Prime Minister was setting out the circumstances of that technical college, and I am not in a position to adjudicate. That is why an occupant of the chair is in no position to direct the response. On the point of order from the Leader of the House, these are matters for judgment by the chair. I have listened to his point but, on this occasion, I do not agree with him. The Deputy Prime Minister is responding to the question.

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