Shane Ross (Independent)

I second Senator Norris's amendment to the Order of Business on Iraq. The issue of scripts was raised in the other House and I would be interested in a ruling on it. I noted that in the last session there was an extraordinarily malign tendency for scripts to be read by Members throughout all debates. It is a particularly bad trend in this House. There is a case, however, for certain people being confined to scripts. Senator O'Toole and perhaps Senator Norris would benefit from being scripted on all occasions.