The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Hon. Bimal Rathnayake presented Supplementary Estimate No. 6 of 2025 following a special Cabinet decision prompted by severe islandwide weather-related disasters. He stated that the estimate was intended to enable urgent relief and restoration of normal public life, sought the House’s special permission to proceed notwithstanding Standing Order 22(4), and moved that it be referred to the Committee on Public Finance, which was agreed to.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, due to the unexpected emergency disaster situation that has arisen as a result of the very adverse weather conditions experienced across the island in recent days, a decision was reached at the special Cabinet meeting held this evening to submit to Parliament a Supplementary Estimate to enable the prompt provision of relief to restore normalcy to the public life that has unfortunately been disrupted. Accordingly, notwithstanding anything in Standing Order 22(4) of Parliament, with the special permission of the House, I present to Parliament the Supplementary Estimate bearing No. 6 of 2025.
¶ 02 I move that this Supplementary Estimate be referred to the Committee on Public Finance.
¶ 03 Question put, and agreed to.
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 3 December 2025. No. 23332. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19502