The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House of Parliament
Bimal Rathnayake raised a point of order citing Standing Order 76, stating that the Speaker’s ruling could not be debated. He asked the Chair to clarify whether the Attorney-General’s and Secretariat’s letters requested by a Member would be tabled, arguing that if they had been tabled as stated by the Speaker, further debate was unnecessary and proceedings should move on.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I rise to a point of Order.
¶ 02 First, under Standing Order 76, your ruling cannot be debated. Second, the Hon. Member asked that the two letters — from the Attorney-General and the Secretariat — be tabled. You should state clearly whether you will table them. Otherwise, we cannot allow a debate on this.
¶ 03 [Later]
¶ 04 If those documents are being tabled, there is no need to argue further. The Speaker stated so in his Statement. You are in a peculiar hurry. Since the Speaker has tabled them, let us move on.
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House of Parliament. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 25 September 2025. No. 1759483897051145. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/20023