Mr RIPOLL (3:12 PM) —Mr Speaker, can you confirm that this week you and the President of the Senate were part of a promotional photo shoot for the Earth Hour event at the front of Parliament House? Can you also confirm that your photographer was approached by a blue-uniformed officer to check his identity and his business at the front of the house? Is it the case that the blue-uniformed officer, having checked the identity of the photographer, then inquired as to who you were and what you were doing and needed to radio a confirmation to be satisfied? Given that security personnel do not know who you are, can you review the procedures in place to ensure that a blue-uniformed officer’s time is not wasted on determining the ID of the Speaker the House, the President of the Senate or your assigned photographer?

The SPEAKER —I thank the member for Oxley for his question. I suggest to him security matters are taken very seriously in this place, and I certainly take them seriously.