Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Hansard source

And my point I made is I don't consider that material to be directly relevant. I do consider it to be a response to multiple interjections. And, while they're always disorderly, I am not going to say ministers cannot respond to them when people do not respond to my call for order in the chamber. I have reminded the minister of the question, but I have also ruled her substantive answer, for which a point of order was raised, was directly relevant because she was quoting from a different source about the exact same issue, which was, I believe, the number of apprentices in Tasmania, which was contained in Senator Polley's question. So I will call the minister to continue her answer, ask for no interjections and ask for the discussion to not range north of Bass Strait for a little while. Senator Cash.