Sitting of Monday, 24 November 2025

Order of business

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1. 1 Opening Speaker's Announcement: Oral Questions Procedure 1 speeches ▸
2. 2 Papers Papers: Public Debt Management Regulations 1 speeches ▸
3. 3 Committee report Committee Report: Public Finance Committee on Regulations 1 speeches ▸
4. 4 Procedural Brief Procedural Clarification on Committee Report 2 speeches ▸
5. 5 Petitions Petitions: Five Citizens' Petitions Accepted 2 speeches ▸
6. 6 Oral question Oral Question: Q.1 (1272/2025) - Request for Adjournment 3 speeches ▸
7. 7 Oral question Oral Question: Agricultural Lands in Pottuvil and Lakugala (Q.2) 6 speeches ▸
8. 8 Oral question Oral Question: Jaffna College of Technology Infrastructure (Q.3) 6 speeches ▸
9. 9 Oral question Oral Question: Education Zones in Trincomalee District (Q.4) 6 speeches ▸
10. 10 Oral question Oral Question: Teaching Hospitals (Q.5) 2 speeches ▾
    • The Hon. Darmapriya Wijesinghe (on behalf of the Hon. Major General (Rtd.) G.D. Sooriyabandara) JJB

      AI summary Asked the Minister of Health and Mass Media to provide details on Sri Lanka’s teaching hospitals, including their number, locations, objectives, and required basic facilities. He further requested information on links between teaching hospitals and medical faculties, the establishment of professorial units, and a hospital-wise breakdown of those facilities, with particular focus on whether a professorial unit was planned and will be established at Kuliyapitiya Teaching Hospital for Wayamba University medical students. He also sought details of facilities provided by the present Government to Kuliyapitiya Teaching Hospital and reasons if any requested information or action is not forthcoming.

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    • The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa - Minister of Health and Mass Media JJB

      AI summary The Minister of Health and Mass Media tabled a written answer stating that Sri Lanka has 20 teaching hospitals, including national hospitals, with details and basic facilities provided in annexes. He said their main objective is clinical training for medical undergraduates and postgraduate trainees, alongside the provision of specialist medical services. The answer stated that professorial units should exist in every teaching hospital, that all currently have such units except Kuliyapitiya and Badulla, and that arrangements are underway to establish them after infrastructure upgrades. It also listed the medical faculties linked to each teaching hospital and noted ongoing discussions to provide necessary facilities to Kuliyapitiya Teaching Hospital.

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11. 11 Oral question Oral Question: Equal Educational Opportunities - Standing Order 27(2) (Q.6) 10 speeches ▸
12. 12 Procedural Ministerial Statement and Procedural Matters on Archaeology 5 speeches ▸
13. 13 Oral question Oral Question: India Trade Relations - Standing Order 27(2) Response 14 speeches ▸
14. 14 Procedural Ministerial Statements: Defence and Gender-based Violence 3 speeches ▸
15. 15 Debate Appropriation Bill 2026 Committee Stage: Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation - Part 1 14 speeches ▸
16. 16 Procedural Adjournment for Lunch 1 speeches ▸
17. 17 Debate Appropriation Bill 2026 Committee Stage: Transport, Highways, Ports, Civil Aviation, Urban Development, Construction and Housing 115 speeches ▸
18. 18 Papers Civil Aviation Act: Regulations 1 speeches ▸
19. 19 Adjournment Adjournment Motion: Land Issues in Verugal DS Division, Trincomalee 20 speeches ▸