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Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna, M.P.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB)· Matale

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Speeches 129 #33 of 225·#13 in party
Attendance 6/8 days present (of recorded)
Top topic Parliamentary Procedure 45 speeches
Last spoke 21 May 2026 in Oral question

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129 speeches
  • 10 March 2025 AI summary Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna raised a Point of Order referring to remarks by Deputy Minister Jayasinghe in a campaign-related media briefing for the Co-operative Employees’ Union elections. She argued that his statement about professional evaluation, competitive examination, and lack of qualified persons in two categories contradicted earlier assurances on resolving teachers’ and principals’ salary anomalies. She questioned whether the Government was now implying that teachers and principals lacked the qualifications needed to justify correcting those anomalies. Appropriation Bill, 2025 – Seventeenth Allotted Day – Committee Stage Parliamentary Procedure Read →
  • 10 March 2025 AI summary The Member said that if the response in question was not personally given but generated using AI technology, this should be stated accordingly. She indicated that she would send the relevant material for clarification or verification. Appropriation Bill, 2025 – Seventeenth Allotted Day – Committee Stage Parliamentary Procedure Read →
  • 10 March 2025 AI summary Mrs. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna informed the State Minister that she would send a video circulating on social media. The remark appears to relate to a matter under discussion requiring the Minister’s attention or verification. Appropriation Bill, 2025 – Seventeenth Allotted Day – Committee Stage Parliamentary Procedure Read →
  • 10 March 2025 AI summary Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna raised allegations of academic misconduct and irregular appointments, tabling documents concerning alleged fake or manipulated publications linked to a promotion and PhD, and questioning the handling of a lecturer’s teaching-hour shortfall and related charge sheet. She also warned that reducing spirit strength and selling alcohol in 180 ml packs could encourage alcohol use among children, citing increased alcohol consumption among schoolgirls and referring to Article 27 of the Constitution. She urged the Minister to address unresolved issues affecting employees across the education sector. Appropriation Bill, 2025 – Seventeenth Allotted Day – Committee Stage EducationCorruption & Governance ReformJustice & Human Rights Read →
  • 10 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna questioned the Government’s position on the teachers’ salary anomaly and urged greater attention to capital expenditure in education, noting that ministries often receive less than half of allocated capital funds and even less for projects. She raised concerns about alleged political influence in the appointment of Vice-Chancellors at universities including Ruhuna, Rajarata, Eastern and South Eastern, claiming shortlisted candidates were being bypassed after elections. She also highlighted the issue of fake certificates and tabled a Daily FT article by Prof. L.P. Jayatissa on fake journal publications in university systems. Appropriation Bill, 2025 – Seventeenth Allotted Day – Committee Stage EducationCorruption & Governance Reform Read →
  • 10 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna requested that the State Minister respond after her remarks, noting that she had only two minutes to speak. No substantive policy issue, proposal, or question was raised in the provided excerpt. Appropriation Bill, 2025 – Seventeenth Allotted Day – Committee Stage Parliamentary Procedure Read →
  • 10 March 2025 AI summary Rohini Kumari Wijerathna urged the Minister to respond with practical solutions to issues in education, particularly the reported shortage of about 40,000 teachers despite an approved cadre of 235,924 and improved teacher-student ratios. She cautioned against using Development Officers to cover teacher vacancies and called for National Colleges of Education and Teacher Training Colleges to be modernized and elevated to university level. She also challenged claims that there is no two-thirds teacher pay anomaly, referencing the 2/97 Circular, the B.C. Perera Commission, her earlier parliamentary intervention in 2020, and the death of teacher Waruni Asanka during the related struggle. Appropriation Bill, 2025 – Seventeenth Allotted Day – Committee Stage EmploymentJustice & Human RightsEducation Read →
  • 10 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna urged the Education Minister to issue pending teacher appointments, particularly for Sinhala-medium teachers in the North and East and graduate teachers in the Central Province. She argued that Sri Lanka’s education framework is outdated, citing long-standing laws and circulars, and said past reform efforts since the 1960s were obstructed by political and student movements. She called for renewed education reform beyond the existing model of free education, noting that past opposition to private, foreign, and curriculum reforms had limited opportunities for students, especially those from lower-income families. Appropriation Bill, 2025 – Seventeenth Allotted Day – Committee Stage Education Read →
  • 8 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna moved an Adjournment Motion on International Women’s Day urging the Government to ratify ILO Convention No. 190 on eliminating violence and harassment in the world of work. She argued that workplace-related physical, verbal, psychological and sexual harassment is a major barrier to women’s labour force participation, noting survey findings that many women would return to work if such harassment ended. The motion states that the Convention covers workers and others across contractual statuses, sectors and locations, and calls on Sri Lanka to adopt it to ensure safe workplaces and support women’s empowerment and economic participation. Adjournment Motion: ILO Convention No. 190 - Empowerment of Women at Workplace Women & ChildrenJustice & Human RightsEmployment Read →
  • 8 March 2025 AI summary Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna urged the Minister to involve experienced practitioners and subject experts in advancing the Ministry’s work. She asked for an update on the sexuality education programme developed by five ministries, following a decision of the Parliamentary Caucus for Children, to help reduce sexual violence against children. Appropriation Bill, 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Women and Child Affairs Women & ChildrenEducationJustice & Human Rights Read →
  • 8 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna argued that gender inequality in Sri Lanka is driven by discriminatory attitudes and inadequate legal and policy implementation, citing harassment in public transport, intimate partner violence, rape statistics, and under-16 pregnancies. She called for gender-responsive budgeting from the next Budget, with coordinated planning across ministries such as Education, Health, Justice, Finance, Foreign Employment and Women and Child Affairs, including practical measures like girl-friendly school sanitation, nutrition programmes for estate-sector women, and inclusion of transgender persons. She criticised the low capital allocation for the Women and Child Affairs Ministry and questioned policies affecting women, including cost-reflective electricity tariffs and reports of a 15 per cent tax on migrant worker remittances, urging greater investment in women’s economic empowerment. Appropriation Bill, 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Women and Child Affairs Women & ChildrenEducationPublic Finance Read →
  • 8 March 2025 AI summary Moving a token cut under Heads 171 and 217, Rohini Kumari Wijerathna used International Women’s Day to call for faster action on women’s rights, equality and empowerment, noting the national theme of a sustainable future through women’s empowerment and the international theme “Accelerate Action.” She argued that persistent problems such as domestic violence, period poverty and barriers to girls’ education are rooted in social and policy failures rather than in women themselves. She highlighted that although women comprise 64.8 per cent of graduates, female labour force participation remains only 32.1 per cent, and called for lawmakers to address these gaps substantively rather than ceremonially. Appropriation Bill, 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Women and Child Affairs EducationParliamentary ProcedureWomen & Children Read →
  • 8 March 2025 AI summary The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna formally seconded the motion. The question was then put to the House and agreed to. Privilege Motion: Incident on 20th January 2025 Parliamentary Procedure Read →
  • 6 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna clarified that a chart previously referred to in the debate was not an unrelated document, stating that it had been provided to the Chair. Appropriation Bill 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Health and Mass Media Parliamentary Procedure Read →
  • 6 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna stated that a Ministry-issued chart dated 27 February, which she tabled, showed that 333 medicines were out of stock. Her intervention highlighted the reported shortage of medicines based on official Ministry documentation. Appropriation Bill 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Health and Mass Media Healthcare Read →
  • 6 March 2025 AI summary Rohini Kumari Wijerathna requested one minute from the Presiding Member. No substantive policy issue, proposal, or question was raised in the quoted intervention. Appropriation Bill 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Health and Mass Media Parliamentary Procedure Read →
  • 6 March 2025 AI summary Requested that the tabled document be reviewed as consistent with the stated approach. Also asked for the publication of the actual funds allocated. Appropriation Bill 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Health and Mass Media Public Finance Read →
  • 6 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna welcomed some Budget proposals in health, including estate hospital revival, autism support and thalassemia programmes, but urged that estate hospitals be brought under Government oversight and that autism screening be coordinated with the Education Ministry. She criticized the allocation of Rs. 20,000 million for SriLankan Airlines debt while health allocations and emergency unit improvements remained limited, and called for funds to be shifted toward regional hospitals, primary care, health and education. She raised concerns over reductions to overtime and holiday pay formulas for nurses and public health staff, medicine shortages including 333 out-of-stock items at the Medical Supplies Division, stalled procurement, and the need to restore stock-tracking systems, price controls and regulation of private hospital fees. She also said several initiatives presented as new, such as the family doctor model and health checks, originated under earlier programmes, and highlighted acute specialist shortages in hospitals. Appropriation Bill 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Health and Mass Media EducationHealthcarePublic Finance Read →
  • 6 March 2025 AI summary Asked the Chair to begin counting her allotted speaking time from that moment, noting that the previous Member had not been permitted to proceed. Appropriation Bill 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Health and Mass Media Parliamentary Procedure Read →
  • 6 March 2025 AI summary Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna objected to time being lost during an interruption and asked the Presiding Member to allow the other Member to finish if permitted. The intervention was procedural, concerning the management of speaking time during the debate. Appropriation Bill 2025 - Committee Stage: Ministry of Health and Mass Media Parliamentary Procedure Read →