Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

What you need to do is state the point of order on relevance, which I understand. The minister was asked a specific question on a specific topic. You probably want a yes or no answer, right? So I'll say the same thing I've said many, many times: under the standing orders, I can't direct the minister to do that. It would be a lot easier for me if I could, trust me, but he's entitled to talk about the policy in terms of being directly relevant about perhaps the guarantee and why it's possible or not possible—I don't know what he's going to say. He'll just need to make clear the context in which he's talking about the topic, and I'm not sure where he's going with this, but he is being directly relevant because he's talking about—if he started talking about something else, I'd bring him back in line.

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