On a point of order, I would draw your attention to the fact that the Order Paper for Tuesday, 28 February contained a question, No. 38, which at the time I indicated that I wished to have postponed. I discover now that the question has disappeared from the Order Paper. On discovering this I inquired from the Editor of Debates as to the record and was informed that in the report you are quoted as having said, when the question was reached, that it was being postponed. Therefore, I am raising the matter as one of urgency and am asking you to add the question to the Order Paper for today.

I do not know whether that can be done.

Who is in control of the Order Paper?

I am.

Do you have the authority to add the question to today's Order Paper?

I have never done so before but I would see nothing wrong with the question being answered at the end of Question Time today if we had a copy of the question.

Hear, hear.

Is the Deputy sure that the question has not been answered already due to a mistake, perhaps?

It has not been answered. May I take it that you will ask one of your officials to provide a copy of the question for the Minister during Question Time so that he may answer at the end of Question Time? You will appreciate the reason for adding it today—by some extra-ordinary circumstance, the Minister may finish today.

By some extraordinary co-operation.

Is the Deputy sure that a written reply was not supplied?

I have checked and rechecked but there was no reply.

There is no way that the Minister could communicate with his office at the moment because he will be answering questions from now on.

A reply to the question today is subject to the Minister being in a position to reply.

Is the Minister's difficulty related to the telephone strike that there is no attempt to settle?

That is a brilliant interjection.

If it is not answered today will it be postponed for a number of weeks? Would the reply not have been prepared already?

I would not know that.

Is it being added to the Order Paper?

I shall see if that can be done.

Perhaps I can help the Chair. I do not know what the question is but if I can get it I will answer it.