The Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam
Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam sought clarification from the Leader of the House and the Chief Government Whip following the tabling of a list of bar licences. He asked where the related applications and MPs’ recommendation letters were, which authority was investigating the matter, whether licences—particularly 18 issued in Kilinochchi District—would be suspended or cancelled, and whether the investigation findings would be made public.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I rise to a point of order.
¶ 02 Hon. Speaker, I need a brief clarification from the Leader of the House and the Chief Government Whip. Thank you for tabling the bar licence list yesterday as requested and for proceeding as stated.
¶ 03 Before the debate starts, please give me one minute for clarification. The applications accompanying that bar licence list and the recommendation letters by MPs—where are they now? Who is conducting the investigation—the CID, Police, Presidential Secretariat, or the Attorney-General’s Department? Will these licences be cancelled? In Kilinochchi District, with a population of 100,000, 18 bar licences have been issued—one for every 5,000 people. Will you immediately suspend or cancel these? When the investigation finishes, will the information be made public? People have asked me these after you tabled the list. A clarification in the House would be helpful.
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Cite as: The Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 December 2024. No. 1734081038099638. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12554