The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Hon. Bimal Rathnayake raised a procedural concern about time management, stating that any excess time used by the Chair should be deducted from the relevant side and not from the Government’s allotted time. He also emphasized that, during the Committee Stage, replies should be made by the relevant Ministers as a matter of parliamentary practice, and urged the Presiding Member to take the next procedural step when a Member continues speaking after being asked to stop.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, since you are not managing the time, the time you take should be reduced from the relevant side. Do not reduce the Government side’s time.
¶ 02 Also, during Committee Stage, replies by the relevant Ministers are the normal parliamentary practice. That is a right of those two Ministers. It is not a right of other MPs or other Ministers. Hon. Presiding Member, you told that Member several times, “Stop speaking, stop speaking.” If he does not stop, you must move to the next step.
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 18 November 2025 ·No. 22927 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 18 November 2025. No. 22927. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/26099