Warning from speaker, but does he know what happened?

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Speaker of Dewan Rakyat YB Tan Sri Ramli Ngah yesterday made a long 'opening speech' and giving his 'warning' to MPs by citing the incident on last Thursday when Deputy Speaker Datuk Lim Si Cheng stopped DAP MP from Seputeh, YB Teresa Kok, from speaking during the Committee Stage debate on the Federal Territory Ministry.

Tan Sri Ramli Ngah expressed regret that Teresa Kok had argued with Lim Si Cheng when he stopped her from speaking. He said that it is the right of the Speaker to limit the speaking time of MPs, especially when the Dewan Rakyat already behind schedule. He mentioned Teresa Kok (Seputeh) and said that she shouldn't have brought the incident out of the Dewan Rakyat and cast aspersion against Lim Si Cheng. He also said that the word 'you' or 'awak' and 'me' or 'saya' should not be used in the debate, but MPs should refer or call each other according to constituency name. He said he hoped such an incident would not happen again.

I am not quite agreeable with the remarks from the Speaker as although it is the Speaker's discretion to limit or even stop MPs from continuing their speeches, Speaker can only do that when the MP is swaying away from his or her speech from the original topic.

As for Teresa Kok's case, I stand by her insistence to continue speaking as it was Federal Territory Ministry which was on debate and Teresa was one of the few Federal Territory MPs who wanted to participate in the debate.

The ministry itself is not a big Ministry and priority should be given to FT MPs who have no councilors or state assemblymen/women in their constituency.

I was informed by Teresa's blog that she has prepared a speech of about two pages, which is not very long and can be fully delivered in five minutes.

You can read more in Teresa's blog.