There is one person, hon Ellis, who has been in this Parliament for so long, probably 30 years. He knows the Rules. He knows exactly when we created these Rules and that there are three clusters that rotate. The only occasion on which a question can be moved to the next Question Time is when there is absence of an answer; not when the answer has been given. You cannot do what the hon Ellis has done when he said: Give us a week because we want to go and check what the case is here.
The Rules are clear: When you do not like a question ... No Minister is entitled ... He can answer what he wants to. No Minister, once he has answered the question, on the basis of not liking or wanting to get further evidence ... There are other mechanisms to deal with it. If you are unhappy with the answer in terms of its veracity, you bring a request to the House to have an investigation. If you do not like the question, you can ask another, either an oral question on the next occasion, or you can ask a written question. Those are the mechanisms.
We would ask that, on both these issues, you please rule and do not allow the House to be disrupted in the manner that the DA is doing, particularly if those disrupting are senior members of the House. [Applause.]