Government stuffs up once again in the House

The Government on Tuesday moved for an extended sitting to be held on Wednesday morning from 9 am to 1 pm. Governments do this because they have so many bills they want to get passed, they need the extra sitting time to do it.

But in another display of incompetence, the extended sitting ended at 10.48 am because no Minister was ready to take a call on one of their bills.

Now this stuff is not rocket science. The Office of the Leader of the House prepares (or did under National) a running sheet that tells the Whips and Ministers when they have to be in the House, and even what to say. It’s just basic scheduling.

This is the second time in 12 months the Government has had a sitting adjourn due to incompetence. I don’t recall this happening even once to a previous Government.

The question it raises is how do you expect the Government can run the country competently, when they seem unable to even run their own parliamentary operations competently.