Sitting of Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Order of business

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1. 1 Opening Speaker's Announcements: Committee to Look into Legal Basis for Parliamentary Committee Recommendations 1 speeches ▸
2. 2 Papers Paper: Annual Report of Sri Lanka Institute of Textile and Apparel 2022 1 speeches ▸
3. 3 Petitions Petitions 4 speeches ▸
4. 4 Oral question Oral Question: Govijana Seva Bank, Mihintale - Loan Granted to Janatha Lanka Chillie Marketing Ltd. (Q.495/2025) 1 speeches ▾
   • The Hon. Namal Karunaratne - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Livestock JJB

     AI summary Deputy Minister Namal Karunaratne stated that a loan issued in 2001 by the Mihintale Govijana Bank to the Limited Janatha Lanka Chilli Production and Marketing Farmers’ Company had been fully recovered as principal, but Rs. 1,975,233 in interest remains due and will be pursued under standard recovery procedures. He said an earlier decision not to recover interest had been revised, and notice had been issued to the company chairman, Mr. S. M. Chandrasena, to pay the outstanding amount. In response to supplementary questions, he said investigations are under way into fertilizer subsidy payments recorded as paid but not credited to farmers, including an alleged misappropriation of Rs. 2,934,310 affecting 155 farmers in Anuradhapura, with a CID complaint lodged and one officer arrested.

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5. 5 Oral question Oral Questions: Teachers' Service and Principals' Service Salary Anomalies (Q.502/2025), Estates in Badulla District Drinking Water Projects (Q.505/2025), Damage to Cultivations by Wild Animals (Q.498/2025) 7 speeches ▸
6. 6 Oral question Oral Question under Standing Order 27(2): Export of Sri Lanka's Textiles and Apparels and Ministerial Clarifications 11 speeches ▸
7. 7 Procedural Ministerial Statement: Health Sector Strike by Paramedical and Allied Health Professionals 2 speeches ▸
8. 8 Procedural Privilege Question: Conduct at COPE Meeting Regarding Gem Lot 8 speeches ▸
9. 9 Debate Appropriation Bill 2025, Twenty-third Allotted Day - Committee Stage: Heads 149, 303, 194 and 219 (Industry and Entrepreneurship Development; Youth Affairs and Sports) 87 speeches ▸
10. 10 Papers Paper: Annual Report of National Youth Services Council for year ended 31.12.2024 1 speeches ▸
11. 11 Adjournment Adjournment Motion: Protection and Support for Migrant Workers Abroad 9 speeches ▸