10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe

Jathika Jana balawegaya· Anuradhapura· 27 February 2025 ·Debate: Debate: Committee Stage of the 2025 Appropriation Bill - Special Expenditure Heads (Heads 1-25) and Amendments

Corruption & Governance Reform
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Wasantha Samarasinghe referred to a list of vehicles used by private staff, along with related allowances and fuel expenses. He noted that the list included appointments such as Prof. Sunanda Madduma Bandara as Trade Union Advisor/Senior Advisor to the President and Saman Rathnapriya as Director, Trade Unions, with details of the vehicles assigned to them.

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¶ 01 Hon. Chairman, I was speaking about the vehicles used by the private staff. Next, I spoke about various allowances and fuel expenses. This vehicle list is available. There are some remarkable names in it. According to this list, a person has been appointed as Trade Union Advisor. The media personality Prof. Sunanda Madduma Bandara, who served as Senior Advisor to the President, has been appointed. Also, Saman Rathnapriya has been appointed as Director, Trade Unions. The details appear together with the vehicles they used.

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Hansard, Thursday, 27 February 2025 ·No. 1741437399068186 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 27 February 2025. No. 1741437399068186. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/13292