Order! Hon members, I do wish to extend our appreciation to you, especially the party leaders and the Whips, for your co-operation under these trying circumstances.
As agreed, the Orders for today will be put for decision without debate of declaration.
The first item on the Order Paper is a motion in the name of the Chief Whip of the Majority Party.
Speaker, I hereby move that the Report be tabled and adopted. [Interjections.]
Hon Chief Whip, it is the motion in your name.
The motion on the ... as printed ... the motion as printed on the Order Paper ... [Interjections.] ... which reads as, Standing Committee on Appropriation and Division of Revenue Bill be considered and adopted.
Thank you, ma'am. Are there any objections to this motion? Hon Ndlozi, are you objecting?
No, Speaker. There is a motion printed on the Order Paper which we must deal with first and agree to. The Chief Whip has to read that motion. [Laughter.] It reads as follows: That the House suspends Rule so and so and then we agree. Then we go there, otherwise, hayi ...
Hon Chief Whip of the Majority Party, you are so ordered to read line by line so that we can proceed. Please. The motion on the Order Paper ... SUSPENSION OF RULE 290(2)(a)
(Draft Resolution)
Speaker, I move the draft resolution printed in my name on the Order Paper as follows:
That the House suspends Rule 290(2)(a), which provides inter alia that the debate on the Second Reading of a Bill may not commence before at least three working days have elapsed since the committee's report was tabled, for the purpose of conducting the Second Reading debate today on the Division of Revenue Bill.
Motion agreed to.