Speaker’s Observations — Interjections—Microphones

Before we move on to oral questions, I do want to apologise to members for an incorrect comment that I made yesterday when I was under the impression that Mr Bishop had used the Leader of the Opposition’s mike in interjecting. In fact, I have been informed that the microphone was turned off at the time and that any amplification would have come from my microphones and not from the Leader of the Opposition’s. I also want to apologise to the staff whose job it is to make sure that the feed that goes publicly works well. I checked; it did work well. They work the volume controls in order for the outside feed, but, unfortunately, it doesn’t help me in here. As a point of compromise, and I’ll relay this to the member concerned, I’ve turned my hearing aids down. So if he’s in the same position, if he turns his volume down, we might get the appropriate compromise.