John Hogg (President) Share this | Hansard source

Senator, this is not the time for debate on either side. Question time is a time for questions to be asked and answers to be given and not for interjections to override the questions. Interjections do not help question time in any way whatsoever. The minister has been going for 21 seconds. There are two minutes allocated for answering questions. The minister has a minute and 39 seconds remaining to answer the question.