The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake

¶ 01 From your headquarters, you spread such propaganda. In the villages, people tell us the Penal Code amendment was the Prime Minister’s doing. You must discuss in your Government Parliamentary Group before tabling. If you remove the Chair, the issue ends. Do not blame us for everything. The President told me not to attack the Government; we are not. Govern for five years; we have no issue. If you mess up, you will face the consequences.

¶ 02 The Ministry of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development has been given Rs. 750 million. Good. But when the economic crisis hit, as a Minister I gave back Rs. 950 million to the Treasury. We worked; now you work too and get used to it.

¶ 03 You have presented a Rs. 36 billion Supplementary Estimate; it will pass. Now fix the roads. In Badulla, I spoke with Hon. Ambika Sawmivel—she confirmed carpet-laying on Gonamotawa road and others. We are happy. We do not sabotage or agitate with kerosene and petrol. We don’t harass doctors or teachers. I was attacked when I knelt to a teacher, but I won’t meddle in schools for anyone’s child. If you cannot discipline your children, don’t change the Penal Code to discipline others’. Whoever you take abroad, fine, but don’t lecture others. Past governments’ issues are over; move on.

¶ 04 Hon. Deputy Speaker

¶ 05 Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake, your additional minutes are also over.