The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Leader of the House of Parliament
Leader of the House Bimal Rathnayake said Questions to the Prime Minister are answered after gathering information from relevant Ministries and that the Government has generally provided such responses. Referring to Standing Order 27(2), he noted that urgent matters should be raised concisely, but some submissions are lengthy and difficult to answer immediately. He rejected accusations that the Government was not responding, stating that answers have been provided and that a full report was prepared on issues raised by Hon. Kader Mastan.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, I wish to clarify. Questions to the Prime Minister are important. The Prime Minister answers after obtaining information from other Ministries. We have generally provided answers. Under Standing Order 27(2), urgent matters of national importance should be raised concisely; instead, we often receive lengthy, highly detailed questions, which are difficult to answer immediately. I do not know if this one falls into that category. In any case, it is not fair to accuse the Government. We have been providing answers under 27(2). We have also compiled a full report on matters raised by Hon. Kader Mastan. We are fulfilling our responsibility.
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