10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

The Hon. (Dr.) Harshana Suriyapperuma - Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning

22 February 2025 ·Debate: Appropriation Bill 2025 - Second Reading Debate (Fifth Allotted Day)

Public FinanceLand & Housing
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

The Deputy Minister clarified that the Budget allocates Rs. 4,267 million for estate housing and infrastructure development, in response to concerns that the provision was insufficient. He stated that the allocation covers ongoing projects, completion of partially built houses from previous years, and new projects, with an expectation of completing 1,300 houses during the year.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Sir, I would just like to clarify the matter raised by the Hon. Member. He said the allocation for estate housing development is insufficient. The President’s Budget clearly states that Rs. 4,267 million is allocated for estate housing and infrastructure development. This covers on-going projects and completion of partially built houses from previous years, plus initiating new ones. Under this, we expect to complete work on 1,300 houses this year.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Saturday, 22 February 2025 ·No. 1741001658041256 ·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/25017

Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Harshana Suriyapperuma - Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 22 February 2025. No. 1741001658041256. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/25017