The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa - Minister of Health and Mass Media and Chief Government Whip

Jathika Jana balawegaya· Kalutara· 9 May 2025 ·Opening: Opening and Announcements

Parliamentary Procedure

AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Clarified the parliamentary practice on oral questions, stating that another Member may ask a supplementary question with the consent of the original questioner. He said this procedure has been clearly understood and has not previously been an issue in the House.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Hon. Speaker has already said so.

¶ 02 Regarding oral questions, there was never an issue in this House about who asks supplementary questions. By parliamentary practice, with the consent of the original questioner, another Member may ask a supplementary. This is clearly set out and understood.

Provenance

Source: Hansard, Friday, 9 May 2025 ·No. 1748600585013314 ·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/24664

View source PDF ↗ Suggest a correction

Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa - Minister of Health and Mass Media and Chief Government Whip. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 May 2025. No. 1748600585013314. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/24664