The Hon. Sunil Handunnetti
Hon. Sunil Handunnetti stated that the Government under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake had restored and ensured Parliament’s financial control over the past year, which he said the public would value. The remarks preceded the Bill being read a Second time and referred to a Committee of the whole Parliament, where Clauses 1 to 5 were agreed to.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Alright, alright. We have now brought that power to Parliament. A year ago, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Government ensured that financial control by Parliament is firmly in place. We believe the people of this country will value that.
¶ 02 Thank you very much, Hon. Presiding Member.
¶ 03 Question put, and agreed to.
¶ 04 Bill accordingly read a Second time.
¶ 05 Resolved: “That the Bill be referred to a Committee of the whole Parliament.” - [The Hon. (Dr.) Anil Jayantha]
¶ 06 Considered in Committee.
¶ 07 [THE HON. PRESIDING MEMBER in the Chair.]
¶ 08 Clauses 1 to 5 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Thursday, 11 September 2025 ·No. 1758278142029989 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
- Page · column
- not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
- Permalink
/lk/speeches/1508
Cite as: The Hon. Sunil Handunnetti. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 11 September 2025. No. 1758278142029989. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/1508