The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Bimal Rathnayake cited Standing Order 38(7) to clarify that, after the Prime Minister answers a question, the Member who asked it may ask two supplementary questions and may permit another Member to ask one or more of them. He urged the Chair to proceed with the business and criticized Members he said were failing to understand the procedure.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, Standing Order 38(7) states:
¶ 02 “(7) After the Prime Minister has answered any question, the Member who asked the question may ask two supplementary questions. With the permission of the Member asking the question, any other Member of Parliament may ask one or more of the supplementary questions:”
¶ 03 What are they doing? Send them back to a basic class. For those pretending not to understand—please proceed with the business.
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 ·No. 23707 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 10 June 2026. No. 23707. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/21472