House Speaker Randolph Horton has demanded that parliamentarians respect the rules regarding conduct during debates.Mr Horton said he’d met with One Bermuda Alliance Public Works Minister Trevor Moniz, Opposition Leader Marc Bean and Deputy Leader of the opposition Progressive Labour Party Derrick Burgess over last Friday’s “verbal exchanges” which “led to some bedlam in the House”.“I had a very frank discussion with each Member in the presence of the Clerk to the Legislature with regard to their decorum in the House, and expressed my grave concerns about the deliberation,” Mr Horton said yesterday morning.“Honourable Members, let me make it clear that further disrespect for the Standing Orders will not be tolerated in this House.“Honourable Members, the House has always entertained passionate and exuberant debates.“Such conventions and constraints may sound a little punitive and, like school, but where political views clash and passions run high, a little formality and civility can go a long way to ensuring that the dignity of this House is always maintained.”Mr Horton’s comments followed a row in Parliament kicked off by Mr Moniz who suggested that the Bermuda Land Development Company could have been short of money because its then Deputy Chairman Leroy Bean had been “paid out”.The BLDC controversy followed a scathing report by the Auditor General which stated public funds were misused when the quango hired its own board heads — chairman Edward Saunders and his deputy, Mr Bean as consultants.Mr Burgess took offence at Mr Moniz’s comments and said he had “the attitude of a redneck” which prompted a demand from the Government benches that he withdraw his remarks.The PLP MP refused and insisted that Mr Moniz should withdraw his first.He was backed by Mr Bean who argued that Mr Moniz had “impugned the integrity of my deputy leader”.Chairing the meeting at the time was Opposition MP Walton Brown who struggled to keep order. Time ran out on the debate and Mr Brown announced that the Speaker would be asked to make a ruling on the matter.Health Minister Pat Gordon-Pamplin had to delay the start of her presentation as an irate Mr Bean could then be heard making reference to Portugal’s colonial past.“When the Leader of the Opposition reaches the point when he realises that leadership requires more than standing and screaming at people across the floor, I would be happy to start,” Ms Gordon-Pamplin said.