Page 3009 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 14 August 2013
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MADAM SPEAKER: Sit down, Mr Corbell. Can you stop the clock please, Clerk. I have asked you to be directly relevant to the question. The question was: what new information did you come across between—
MR CORBELL: And, Madam Speaker—
MADAM SPEAKER: Let me finish my sentence. What new information did you become aware of between September and when you announced the policy on light rail? So can you be directly relevant to that.
MR CORBELL: Madam Speaker, can I draw your attention to my answer, which was that no additional information became available, and I was elaborating on that. I do not know why you have just called me to order, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Have you finished answering the question?
MR CORBELL: No, I have not.
MADAM SPEAKER: Okay, but are you going to be directly relevant to the issue?
MR CORBELL: Madam Speaker, could I draw your attention to the fact that when you previously called me to order and asked me to be relevant, I immediately stood up and, in direct response to the question which was asked, which was what additional information became available to the government, I said that no additional information became available to the government. I do not understand on what basis you have further called me to order after that point.
MADAM SPEAKER: If that was the answer, have you finished the answer?
MR CORBELL: I am asking you, Madam Speaker, why did you further call me to order?
MADAM SPEAKER: Because I thought you were not being directly relevant. Perhaps I misheard you, Mr Corbell, but I did not think you were being directly relevant to my ruling to ask you to be directly relevant.
MR CORBELL: Madam Speaker, I am not quite sure how much further directly relevant I can be than to say that no further information became available, and I was elaborating on that.
MADAM SPEAKER: Okay, so that is the answer to the question?
MR CORBELL: No, I am elaborating on that, Madam Speaker, as I am sure I am allowed to do under the standing orders.
MADAM SPEAKER: Okay, could we start the clock then, if you are elaborating.
MR CORBELL: Am I able to proceed, Madam Speaker?
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