The Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, Attorney-at-Law
Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara questioned the Deputy Minister on government borrowings as of 5 March 2025, citing Rs. 3,775 billion in Treasury Bills, Rs. 1,063 billion in Treasury Bonds, and USD 1,084 million from the World Bank, IMF, and ADB. He asked for an explanation of how the total borrowings, estimated at about Rs. 5,156 billion, had been utilized.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Minister, my first supplementary is this: as of 5th March 2025, you have obtained borrowings amounting to Rs. 3,775 billion as Treasury Bills, Rs. 1,063 billion as Treasury Bonds, and a further USD 1,084 million from the World Bank, IMF and ADB – totaling about Rs. 5,156 billion, that is Rs. 515,600 crore. I ask where these borrowings have been utilized.
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Cite as: The Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 March 2025. No. 1747297753031842. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/15655