Parliamentary Procedure

Sessional Orders

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (10:31): I rise to ask you, Mr Speaker, to investigate a potential breach of the sessional orders. As you are aware, the house has changed the sessional orders to meet the government's commitment that questions on notice must be answered within 30 days. On 16 May, I asked questions to the minister representing the Minister for Health and Wellbeing on SA Health's consultancies and grants. It has now been 49 days without an answer to these two questions. As this is a breach of the new sessional orders, I ask whether you can please investigate this matter.

The SPEAKER: Thank you, member for Kaurna. If you could provide any relevant documents to that effect, I will investigate and come back to the house.

Mr Mullighan: Arrest that minister, sir.

The SPEAKER: We will investigate all options, member for Lee. The Serjeant-at-Arms may indeed be kept busy.