The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna
Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna warned that, under the Public Finance Management Act, accountability for the relevant budget proposal lies with the Director General of the Budget rather than the Secretary to the Treasury. Referring to recent legal action involving public officials, she urged that unlawful approvals not be given and cautioned against exposing Treasury and other public officers to future legal jeopardy.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 I will conclude briefly.
¶ 02 The Director General of the Budget Department knows this proposal has been made. But, DG, I do not know whether you too will end up in prison. Under the Public Finance Management Act, the accountability here lies with the Director General of the Budget—not the Secretary to the Treasury. Already we see cases like Harsha Ilukpitiya, and next Charitha Rathwatte is to be remanded, and even the head of the Prisons Department faces issues. Do not push public officers into jeopardy—approve only what is lawful, or under a future government Treasury officers too may end up in jail.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Monday, 10 November 2025 ·No. 22753 ·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/20567
Cite as: The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 10 November 2025. No. 22753. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/20567