The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Hon. Bimal Rathnayake requested the Speaker to allow Members to ask supplementary questions while ensuring that irrelevant or disruptive conduct is noted. He emphasized that, given the limited time agreed for the next debate through the Parliamentary Business Committee and the Leader of the Opposition, the Speaker should protect all Members’ rights by preventing any one Member from taking excessive time.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, we respectfully request you: today we smoothly accepted you as Speaker with every Member’s cooperation. Members should be given the chance to ask supplementaries. At the same time, I request you to take note when Members act irrelevantly and disruptively.
¶ 02 Also, we have only a short time because, with the agreement of the Leader of the Opposition and our Parliamentary Business Committee, time has to be allocated for the next debate. So we cannot spend a long time on questions. We ask you to protect the rights of all Members and not let one Member take a lot of time.
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 17 December 2024. No. 1734685396083959. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/18082