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"I received a letter at just 12 o’clock today from the Oral Questions Services which said: ‘Your question is one of the first questions to the Commission. Normally it will be answered orally. If you are not present, the question falls and you will not receive an answer.’
So, because I wanted an answer, as does everyone who tables a question, I have sat here for one hour, on what is probably one of the busiest parliamentary days of my career. I should have been in three other places during this last hour.
Now I am not complaining to you, Madam President, you can only operate the rules you are given. However, if you could take account on your list when calculating the proportionality of the supplementary questions (and I get more than my fair share), of the length of time Members are in the House – rather than some Members being able to come in and get a supplementary immediately, just because you are balancing the political groups, or whatever – I think we would all be quite happy to comply with your rule of thumb.
As it is, you have an impossible job to do. Please go back to the Conference of Presidents and look at the system as to how questions are ordered. If we do not stay in the House – for an hour in my case, having been invited to be here because mine was one of the questions – we do not get any answer at all, not even a written answer. That is our frustration. Thank you for your patience."@en1
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