The Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, Attorney-at-Law
Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara raised a point of order under Standing Order 92(2), citing Standing Order 119(2) on the role of the Committee on Public Accounts in examining accounts audited by the Auditor-General. He drew attention to the absence of an Auditor-General for about a month and sought the Speaker’s permission to raise the matter in relation to parliamentary financial oversight.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I rise to a point of order under Standing Order 92(2). This also ties in with the Constitution.
¶ 02 Mr. Speaker, Standing Order 119 deals very clearly with audit in our country. In particular, I wish to draw your attention to Standing Order 119(2), which states:
¶ 03 “It shall be the duty of the Committee on Public Accounts to examine the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament for the public services together with the accounts of such other bodies which are required by or under any law to be audited by the Auditor-General and such other accounts laid before Parliament as the Committee on Public Accounts may think fit.”
¶ 04 Mr. Speaker, it has now been a month; there is no Auditor-General in the country. Please allow me to raise this matter.
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 6 January 2026 ·No. 23111 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 6 January 2026. No. 23111. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/17586