The next stop for deaf MP Mojo Mathers' bid for funding for a note-taker to allow her to participate fully in Parliament is the standing orders committee which oversees rules of the House and select committees.
A meeting of the Parliamentary Services Commission last night failed to find a resolution to the problem of which part of Parliament should pay for the service.
However Speaker Lockwood Smith, who takes advice from the commission, has pledged to continue paying for Ms Mathers' note-taker out of his own office's budget until the matter is resolved.
This morning he said there were "a number of quite complex issues that need to be worked through'' before the matter was settled, "some of those issues will involve reference to the standing orders committee''.
One of the key issues was whether funding for the service was a matter of individual member support or of wider accessibility to Parliament.