Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I refer you to House of Representatives Practice (5th Edition), page 536, where it states that 'a question to a committee chair asking if the committee intended to inquire into a certain matter' has been permitted by a previous speaker. The case refers to a question by the member for Warringah at the time to the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee about whether or not an inquiry would be held. I submit, sir, that this question is indeed in order.

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