Time Limit for Ministers' Speeches

The Deputy Leader of the House (Mr Zaqy Mohamad): Mdm Deputy Speaker, on behalf of the Leader, may I seek your consent and the general assent of Members present to move that the proceedings on the item under discussion be exempted from the provisions of Standing Order No 48(8) to remove the time limit in respect of Minister Edwin Tong and Minister Maliki Osman's speeches?

Mdm Deputy Speaker (Ms Jessica Tan Soon Neo): I give my consent. Does the Deputy Leader of the House have the general assent of the hon Members present to so move?

Hon Members indicated assent.

With the consent of Mdm Deputy Speaker and the general assent of Members present, question put, and agreed to.

Resolved, that the proceedings on the item under discussion be exempted from the provisions of Standing Order 48(8) in respect of Minister Edwin Tong and Minister Maliki Osman's speeches. – [Mr Zaqy Mohamad.]