Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Certainly, whatever delays the MPI during that one hour, the clock keeps going. I've experienced the perils of being the last speaker on the MPI and had to condense my five minute speech to about five seconds, on one occasion. The MPI began at 3.18 and 30 seconds, so the time allotted for the MPI has now expired.

I think what's happened is that the minister has asked, as I saw, but not moved, and while this debate has been going on the time for the MPI has concluded. Even if the minister now wanted to move that motion, she couldn't, because we're passed the MPI.

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