The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Bimal Rathnayake urged that Parliament follow proper procedure when presenting Committee Reports, stating that the Committee Chair should represent the Committee rather than raise unrelated matters. He said any concerns about newspaper reports or disputes involving Members should be addressed separately, not during the formal presentation of a Committee Report.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, many matters are raised in a Committee. Many matters are discussed in any Committee. All those matters do not have to be presented here.
¶ 02 Hon. Speaker, let us conduct Parliament in the proper parliamentary manner. The Committee Chair must represent the Committee. If the Hon. Member has an issue about a newspaper report concerning him, he can address it at another time. Hon. Leader of the Opposition, you may contest it. Hon. Rauff Hakeem, you may address it. But it should not be done at the time of presenting a Committee Report. You have to represent the Committee here.
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 19 May 2026 ·No. 23608 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 19 May 2026. No. 23608. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/29112