Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Under the standing orders, on page 53—I'll read standing order 104 for the benefit of the House so people understand exactly what we're talking about. When it comes to answers of ministers:

(a) An answer must be directly relevant to the question.

(b) A point of order regarding relevance may be taken only once in respect of each answer.

(c) The duration of each answer is limited to 3 minutes.

The Leader of the Opposition took a point of order on relevance. I explained to the House where I was at with dealing with the minister. There is nothing in the standing orders to allow the Leader of the Opposition to simply get up and say, at the conclusion of an answer: 'Was that answer fulsome? Was that answer enough?' So, if there are questions, I'm happy to take them at the end of question time, to do with the administration of the parliament. In the meantime, we're going to move to the next question. I give the call to the honourable member for Werriwa.

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