Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Leader of the House
Hon. Bimal Rathnayake said Hon. Rauff Hakeem’s reference to the court judgment was timely and could be discussed if confined to that matter, but urged that unrelated issues not disrupt proceedings. He noted that Members needed time to study the judgment presented to the House and that time had already been allocated through party meetings for a debate, requesting that the House proceed with the scheduled Order of Business for the day.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, we were watching; now, as soon as he got an opportunity, Hon. Rauff Hakeem raised matters relating to the case, which is timely. None of us objected—“let me speak, let me speak.” If a discussion is to be built around that, it is fine. But if other matters are to be raised, as far as I know, the Constitutional Council was also scheduled to meet at 10.00 a.m. Mr. Speaker, as you know, you presented the judgment to this House. As a lawyer, he might generally know about it. But we do not. So we need to consider it. We have also allocated time to debate this during the party meetings. Therefore, we request that today we proceed according to the Order of Business.
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