Thanks, Deputy Chair. I thought you'd given me half a minute.
No, motion first. I was left with two minutes and those were consumed by the hon member.
Chair, I move the motion ... [Interjections.]
No, on the Order ... [Interjections.]
Chair, there should be one presiding officer in the House. Nowhere in the Rules of the NCOP does it say that a member can ... [Interjections.]
Hon Watson! Please be exemplary. Please could you be exemplary.
Proceed, hon member.
Hon Groenewald? [Interjections.] Sorry, sorry, sorry. [Laughter.] Hon Sinclair, could you repeat what you have just said now for everybody to know? Then I will take a decision.
Yes, Chairperson. Firstly, I want to say that it doesn't mean if you are white that your surname is Groenewald. Secondly, I said: "One Chairperson and one Chief Whip." That is what I said.
Do me a favour: I have just asked a senior member of this Chamber to be exemplary. From now on I am therefore not going to accept any disobedience from anybody here.
Chairperson, I move the motion as printed in my name on the Order Paper as follows:
That the Council ratifies the decision of the Rules Committee to substitute Rules 14A and 14B with the newly adopted Rules 14A and 14B respectively.
Question put: That the motion be agreed to.
IN FAVOUR: Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West, Western Cape.
Motion accordingly agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.