My colleagues, as I said to you at the beginning of my remarks in the House, as your Speaker I view the matter we have now undertaken as a very serious one.
The House has always been indulgent with me. It would be my intention for the next few minutes to call a recess of the House. I wish to inform myself on a few points and then I will come back to the House.
For the next little while I will recess the House.
(The sitting of the House was suspended at 10.43 a.m.)