after frustration that Minister David Allen has hogged previous debates.

Instead, the UBP will seek a separate debate on the general subject of tourism rather than budget specifics.

UBP leader Pam Gordon said the Opposition were given a total of 42 hours to debate the budget.

She: "One year we set aside four and a half hours to debate the tourism budget and Mr. Allen took three hours of that.

`The next year we set aside five hours and he took four hours and forty minutes of that.'' "Every other minister is more courteous -- not only to the Opposition but also to the Government's backbenchers.''