Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I have been following this issue quite carefully in terms of relevance, and—

Order! The Prime Minister will cease interjecting. The minister was asked a specific question, but it is difficult to take a point of order on relevance when I don't know what is going to happen for the remainder—two minutes and 45 seconds. So, correct: at this stage he hasn't answered your question. And I appreciate you'd like a yes/no answer, but, as the shadow minister knows, under the standing orders that is not eligible, so I'm just going to ask the—

The Prime Minister will cease interjecting.

Order! The Member for Deakin will join him as well. We just want to be able to deal with this issue of relevance. The minister now has two minutes and 48 seconds to answer the question. I'm just going to make sure he is being directly relevant in the answer that he is giving.

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