The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Bimal Rathnayake read Standing Order 33(1) on supplementary questions, emphasizing that such questions must remain within the scope of the original question and may be disallowed by the Speaker if they breach the rules. He urged the Chair to enforce these procedural limits and criticized the Opposition’s conduct in raising supplementary questions.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Chief Opposition Organizer, I asked you to read it so you would be more courteous. I will read the full text as per Standing Orders.
¶ 02 Standing Order 33(1) reads: “Any Member may put not more than two supplementary questions on any such answer given under Standing Order 32: Provided that, such supplementary questions shall not introduce matters not included in the original question, and shall be for the purpose of elucidating the matter raised by the answer to obtain further information.”
¶ 03 It relates to that. These people need to be taught five-year compositions before sixth-grade modules. Then it further states: “Furthermore, if in the opinion of the Speaker any supplementary question infringes the rules regarding the scope of questions, the Speaker shall disallow such supplementary question.”
¶ 04 Mr. Speaker, send them to fifth year. Send them to fifth year.
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 21 January 2026 ·No. 23242 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 January 2026. No. 23242. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/2106