The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake

Jathika Jana balawegaya· National List· 3 March 2025 ·Debate: Committee Stage Debate: Appropriation Bill 2025 - Head 119 (Ministry of Energy)

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Hon. Bimal Rathnayake raised the lack of Tamil-to-English interpretation in the House and in a recent Sectoral Oversight Committee meeting on Media, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation. He stated that existing interpreters are too few and overworked, and requested urgent recruitment of additional Sinhala-English and Sinhala-Tamil interpreters.

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¶ 01 Hon. Chair, at present there is no Tamil-to-English interpretation in the House. During the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Media, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation too, Tamil–English and Tamil–Sinhala interpretation was unavailable. Interpreters are very few and overworked. We request that Parliament urgently recruit more Sinhala–English and Sinhala–Tamil interpreters.

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Source: Hansard, Monday, 3 March 2025 ·No. 1742268353096939 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 3 March 2025. No. 1742268353096939. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/18360