Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

We're going to deal with this issue of relevance very quickly. Prime Minister, I think anyone who was listening and I know that the deputy would like a date and a time. I just want to bring her to the Practice page 567 about the interpretation of 'relevance', which has been, by all speakers, very wide. This was a short question. It was a specific question. But the standing orders provide for the Prime Minister to speak on the policy topic. If he were to start talking about, for example, climate change or another topic, I would bring him back to order. But when he is giving specific information and advice—and I know it's not the answer you want—I do not have the powers under the standing orders to direct the Prime Minister to give you the answer you wish for. A point of order, the Leader of the Opposition?

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