The Hon. Hector Appuhamy
Hon. Hector Appuhamy asked the Minister of Finance whether Sri Lanka Customs had appointed a senior-officer committee to address port congestion caused by delays in releasing imported containers. He requested details of the committee members, the number of containers released without inspection, the criteria used for such releases, and whether the Government accepts the risks involved. He also sought information on any measures to address those risks, or reasons if such information could not be provided.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies – (1):
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House – (i) whether he is aware that Sri Lanka Customs has taken steps to establish a Committee of Inquiry consisting of experienced senior officers to recommend remedies to port congestion caused by delays in releasing imported containers; (ii) the names, designations and addresses of the officers included in that Committee, separately; (iii) the number of containers released without inspection on the recommendations of the above Committee; (iv) the criteria considered by Sri Lanka Customs when releasing containers without inspection; (v) whether he accepts that releasing containers without inspection poses a serious risk; and (vi) if so, the measures that will be taken in that regard?
¶ 03 (b) If not, why?
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 ·No. 1755159820030645 ·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/17063
Cite as: The Hon. Hector Appuhamy. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 6 August 2025. No. 1755159820030645. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/17063