The Hon. Sajith Premadasa
Sajith Premadasa raised a point of order about the handling of parliamentary questions where answers rely on multiple annexures. He said Members cannot ask meaningful supplementary questions if annexures are only tabled and published later in Hansard, and referred to a Parliamentary Business Committee decision that such annexures should be provided to the questioning Member before the question is taken. He asked why that decision was not being implemented.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I rise to a point of order.
¶ 02 At the Parliamentary Business Committee it was discussed how a Member can meaningfully ask supplementaries when multiple annexures are tabled. Standing Orders provide that supplementaries may be asked arising out of the answers given. If annexures are only tabled and appear in the Hansard later, the Member cannot ask supplementaries. A decision was made that, where annexures are relied upon, they should be provided to the questioning Member before the question is taken. Why is that not being implemented?
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- Hansard, Thursday, 5 February 2026 ·No. 23269 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Sajith Premadasa. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 February 2026. No. 23269. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12886