The Hon. Kavinda Heshan Jayawardhana

¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, first, I did not refer to filing cases in India. I said that a citizen here could act if such a provision existed; in India, that is in the Constitution. What did I clearly say? By suspending Standing Orders 27(3) and 121, the matter can be brought before Parliament, its attention drawn, and implemented. The reason is that an item must remain in the Order Book for five days, but since this is done in two days, Standing Order 121 was suspended. The Public Finance Committee has not yet been constituted; hence Standing Order 121 was suspended. If you have no issue with that, neither do we. We present our view only that a Vote on Account is used where an Appropriation Bill has not been presented before December 31. We raised this under the Public Financial Management Act. If you have no issue, neither do we. Our views have been placed before this august House.