Member

If this amendment, or any of the amendments about retirement age, were to be accepted it would very soon affect me. I would be forced to retire from this place that I love—although I look forward to the second half of my professional career. But I have always held that we are here to serve this House, rather than the House being here to serve us. Least of all is this House here to serve the constitutional meanderings of a Government who have come to a full stop.