The Hon. Arjuna Sujeewa Senasinghe, Attorney-at-Law
Arjuna Sujeewa Senasinghe argued that Sri Lanka cannot develop or meet its debt obligations through borrowing alone without expanding domestic production and industry. He warned that the need to repay USD 6 billion next year could deepen economic decline and poverty if productive sectors are not revived.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you.
¶ 02 Hon. Speaker, without domestic production and industries, if you expect to repay debt alone, you cannot develop the country. Next year we must repay USD 6 billion; you will keep borrowing to repay debt. If production does not start, the country will slide into decay; poverty will reach 50 percent. Ministers and MPs will look after themselves; the people will be destitute. Thank you.
¶ 03 Hon. Speaker
¶ 04 Next, the Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe. You have 20 minutes.
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- Hansard, Monday, 10 November 2025 ·No. 22753 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Arjuna Sujeewa Senasinghe, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 10 November 2025. No. 22753. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/20476