Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Resume your seat. I'll deal with it. I thought this was clear yesterday when I dealt with the member for Fairfax. The minister will pause and resume his seat for a moment. We're not going to have points of order with statements and have the standing orders being abused. I made that crystal clear yesterday with the member for Fairfax. As I just indicated to the member for Deakin, he was entitled under the standing orders to raise a point of order—of course, he's allowed to do that. I think he knows that the next course of action is that he will leave the chamber under 94(a) for abusing the standing orders.

The member for Deakin then left the chamber.

The minister's going to return to the question. He wasn't asked about alternative approaches. He wasn't asked about the opposition. He was asked a specific question regarding estimates and issues raised through the estimates process. I'm going to make sure he's remaining directly relevant to the question.

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