Points of Order — Oral Questions—Timing of Points of Order

Point of order, Mr Speaker. I respectfully ask you to reflect. The Hon Andrew Hoggard did something very similar, respectfully waiting for a question to finish so that he did not interrupt its flow to raise a point of order, and he was dismissed before he got to explain what the point of order was. I think that if you’re going to take a point of order long after time that’s, effectively, trifling with your ruling, then you could have given the same generosity to Andrew Hoggard.

Well, the problem here is that he was asking at question No. 12 about a matter that was from question No. 10, and I think there’s the difference we have.

Hon David Seymour: Well, no, it was after question No. 11, which he’d waited—

SPEAKER: Look, the Standing Orders are pretty clear that you’ve got to be timely on those things.

Hon David Seymour: OK, well, be consistent.

SPEAKER: Well, Kieran McAnulty was asking for a ruling; Andrew Hoggard wasn’t asking for a ruling.

Hon David Seymour: But you don’t know what Andrew was asking for, because he wasn’t—

SPEAKER: Oh well, I’m terribly sorry. Next time he interrupts like that, I’ll give him a fair go. Can we have Government order of the day No. 1.