House debates

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Questions without Notice

Immigration: Christmas Island Detention Centre

3:22 pm

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Order! As I have indicated in the past, this illustrates the dilemma that a Chair is in. The Chair does not know the answer. The question has been asked and I am in a position where I have to make sure that the standing order, which is direct relevance, is what we are seeing in the response. So far, I believe that is the case. I understand—and I have repeated this—that sometimes when people ask questions they expect an answer in some form, but I cannot direct the form of the answer.

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