The Hon. (Dr.) Anil Jayantha - Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning

Jathika Jana balawegaya· Gampaha· 5 May 2026 ·Oral question: Questions under Standing Order 27(2): Debt Service Payment and Central Bank

Justice & Human Rights

AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Minister Anil Jayantha stated that, due to the complexity and technological aspects of the alleged offence, the Government needed accurate information before commenting. He said premature statements could mislead the public, so authorities waited for progress in the investigation before providing clarification.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 I clarified this. Given the complexity and the technological dimensions of the offence, accurate information is needed. Premature statements risk misleading the public. That is why we awaited investigative progress.

Provenance

Source: Hansard, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 ·No. 23546 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
Page · column: not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
Permalink: /lk/speeches/19784

View source PDF ↗ Suggest a correction

Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Anil Jayantha - Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 May 2026. No. 23546. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19784