The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Bimal Rathnayake clarified that Standing Order 111(1) applies to Sectoral Oversight Committees, not the Committee on Parliamentary Business, and argued that proportional allocation is not applied uniformly across all committees. He stated that the Opposition would receive one additional seat and requested its fair allocation. He then moved that the Committee on Parliamentary Business be fixed at 16 members.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Gayantha Karunatilleka, Standing Order 111(1) clearly deals with Sectoral Oversight Committees and not the Committee on Parliamentary Business. While various principles exist, the people’s mandate apportions seats; we do not apply strict proportionality everywhere. According to our decision, we grant the Opposition one additional seat; please allocate it fairly.
¶ 02 Hon. Speaker, I move that, in accordance with the proposal, the number of Members of the Committee on Parliamentary Business be fixed at sixteen (16).
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 6 December 2024. No. 1734424725051921. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19533