That is a thoroughly bad state of affairs. I will take no more points of order. The matter has been well aired. It is not a matter for the Chair, but I let the points of order run because there was a serious point to be made. It was well made, and it has been recorded.
Members can pursue the matter through other channels.
It is for the Government, not the Chair, to decide how the business of the House is ordered. The subject is before the Committee, and it is my business to chair the proceedings. I intend to do that now. My party put great emphasis on scrutiny of the complicated issue of the European Union's preliminary draft budget. The Committee is rather unusual because any hon.