Gregory Campbell has complained not a single question from an Irish MP made it onto the Order Paper for Northern Ireland questions this week.  - video Dailymotion

Gregory Campbell has complained not a single question from an Irish MP made it onto the Order Paper for Northern Ireland questions this week.

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00:00This morning, at Northern Ireland Office questions, there was not a single MP from Northern Ireland

00:05on the Order Paper. This has happened before. I have no criticism whatsoever of Mr Speaker,

00:12who does try and usually succeeds in getting Northern Ireland MPs in on supplementary

00:17questions. I understand that the numbers game works against us, but can it be reviewed in the

00:23future? For example, I noticed in Scottish questions next week that almost every person

00:28on the Order Paper is actually a Scottish MP, which is as it should be. It would be nice if

00:33occasionally we got a Northern Ireland Office question paper where a Northern Ireland MP was on

00:39it. I thank the Honourable Member for giving notice of his point of order. As he knows,

00:44the selection of substantive questions on the Order Paper is the outcome of a random

00:49shuffle of those Members who actually table a question conducted by the Table Office.

00:55Mr Speaker made sure that a number of Northern Ireland Members were called to ask supplementaries.

01:00Could I suggest to the Honourable Member that he might like to raise this matter

01:04with the Modernisation Committee?