The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake

New Democratic Front· National List· 9 January 2025 ·Debate: Special Commodity Levy Act: Orders and Related Motions

Parliamentary Procedure

AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Ravi Karunanayake objected to being informed at the last moment that his allotted speaking time had been reduced from 12 minutes to four minutes. He requested a justification for the reduction, stating that it unfairly penalized him as a speaker.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 He was informed only now that his 12 minutes is cut to four. There must be a justification. This penalizes the speaker.

Provenance

Source: Hansard, Thursday, 9 January 2025 ·No. 1738229262040729 ·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/23718

View source PDF ↗ Suggest a correction

Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 January 2025. No. 1738229262040729. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/23718