The Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam
Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam supported the Adjournment Motion on persons with disabilities and special needs and urged the Government to continue the work previously undertaken by the Parliamentary Caucus for Persons with Disabilities. He asked the Deputy Minister of Finance to clarify whether the disability allowance had been increased in the current year, noting that he had not seen such an increase in the Budget document.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you, Hon. Presiding Member.
¶ 02 This Adjournment Motion on persons with disabilities and special needs is important. In the last Parliament, we also had a Parliamentary Caucus for Persons with Disabilities under former Minister Dullas Alahapperuma, which did valuable work. I urge the Government to take forward that work within this programme.
¶ 03 A Member said today the disability allowance has been increased. Since the Deputy Minister of Finance is here, I ask: has it been increased this year? I did not see it in the Budget document.
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