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

Mr. Speaker

15 November 2025 ·Opening: Opening: Parliament Procedures, Staff Lists, and Administrative Information

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

¶ 02 President Hon. Anura Kumara Dissanayake

¶ 03 (Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, and Minister of Digital Economy)

¶ 04 Cabinet of Ministers

¶ 05 Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Training - Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya

¶ 06 Minister of Transport, Highways and Urban Development and Leader of the House of Parliament - Hon. Bimal Ratnayake

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

¶ 08 Minister of Agriculture, Livestock Resources, Lands and Irrigation - Hon. K.D. Lal Kantha

¶ 09 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism - Hon. Vijitha Herath

¶ 10 Minister of Fisheries, Aquatic and Marine Resources - Hon. Ramalingam Chandrasekar

¶ 11 Minister of Industries and Enterprise Development - Hon. Sunil Handunnetti

¶ 12 Minister of Plantation and Social Infrastructure Facilities - Hon. K.V. Samantha Wijayaratne

¶ 13 Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development - Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe

¶ 14 Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government - Hon. (Prof.) A.H.M.H. Abeyarathna

¶ 15 Minister of Science and Technology - Hon. (Prof.) Krishantha Abeyseana

¶ 16 Minister of Ports and Aviation Services - Hon. Anura Karunathilaka

¶ 17 Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports - Hon. Sunil Kumar Kamakè

¶ 18 Minister of Power and Energy - Hon. Kumar Jayakodi

¶ 19 Minister of Labour - Hon. (Dr.) Anil Jayanta

¶ 20 Minister of Justice and National Integration - Hon. Attorney Harshana Nanayakkara

¶ 21 Minister of Environment - Hon. (Dr.) Dammika Pattabendi

¶ 22 Minister of Rural Development, Social Security and Community Empowerment - Hon. (Dr.) Upali Pannilage

¶ 23 Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs - Hon. (Mrs.) Saroja Savithri Polraj

¶ 24 Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs - Hon. Ananda Wijebala

¶ 25 Minister of Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs - Hon. (Dr.) Hiniduma Sunil Senewi

¶ 26 Minister of Housing, Construction and Water Supply - Hon. (Dr.) Susil Ranasinghe

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Saturday, 15 November 2025 ·No. 22870 ·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/28928

Cite as: Mr. Speaker. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 15 November 2025. No. 22870. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/28928