The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism to provide data on Sri Lankans employed overseas as of 31 December 2024 and currently. He requested, for each year from 2015 to date, details on remittances from foreign employment in US dollars and Sri Lankan rupees, source countries, deportations due to contract defaults, action taken for affected workers, and income and expenditure under the migrant worker insurance scheme.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 MIGRANT WORKERS: REMITTANCES FROM 2015 Question No. 311/2024 to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism: (a) Will he inform this House the number of Sri Lankans employed overseas separately as of 31.12.2024 and at present? (b) Will he also inform this House, separately from 2015 to date: (i) total foreign remittances received through foreign employment in US Dollars and Sri Lankan Rupees; (ii) countries from which these remittances originated; (iii) number of migrant workers deported due to default working contracts; (iv) steps taken regarding these workers; (v) revenue earned from the insurance scheme for Sri Lankans leaving for overseas employments; and (vi) amount of money spent from this scheme on Sri Lankan migrant workers? (c) If not, why?
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 22 July 2025. No. 1753443916033328. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/13597