Hon Steenhuisen, I cannot ... [Interjections.] ... hon members, do you want me to respond to you or not? Hon members, I take it that the people you are referring to as having come on the floor of the House as the people who came in on the instruction of the Speaker to escort outside the members who were disrupting the House. Hon members will remember that we sent the order to the Usher of the Black Rod and the Serjeant-at-arms. We then asked the parliamentary protection services to come and help. We then said that the security forces working with the parliamentary protection services can come in. [Interjections.] No, please, allow me to respond.
You are saying to us it isn't conventional. Yes, it is not conventional. It is also not conventional for this House, a Joint Sitting, to be turned into a question session of the National Assembly. [Applause.] It is not conventional. Yes, I agree with you, hon Steenhuisen. Can we please proceed with the business of the day? I have responded to you. There is no way I could sit here and be able to make out who is police and who is not. [Interjections.] [Applause.]
[Whereupon the DA left the House.]