<h1>Assembly microphone cut off during a minister's speech, raising questions about speaking list rules and speaker discretion.</h1> A minister's microphone was switched off while speaking because his name was not on the original speakers' list; the Speaker acknowledged the omission but exercised discretion to allot four minutes, after which warning and cutoff lights activated and the microphone was reportedly silenced, prompting visible displeasure and a subsequent cordial recess meeting with the Speaker.