SPEAKER: Members, at the request of the Minister of Health, I'm going to rule on concerns about replies to written questions. Ministers have a responsibility to the House and through the House to the country to account for the public offices they hold. Questions are an important element of this accountability and Ministers should therefore take questions seriously and endeavour to give informative replies to questions they are asked. Speakers' ruling 186/5 applies equally to oral and written questions. Consistent with the importance of questions, I remind Ministers that they should not commence answers to questions with a political attack—Speaker's ruling 191/3. This is especially true of answers to written questions which do not contain political statements and are not asked in the heat of the debating chamber. 