The Hon. Sajith Premadasa - Leader of the Opposition
On a point of order, Sajith Premadasa supported the right of Hon. Rauff Hakeem, as Chair of the Committee on Public Finance, to clarify matters arising from the Committee where media reports had allegedly been inaccurate. He framed the intervention as a procedural issue concerning the ability of a committee chair to correct the public record in Parliament.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I rise to a point of order.
¶ 02 Hon. Speaker, my point of order is this: at this moment, as Chair of the Committee on Public Finance, Hon. Rauff Hakeem presented certain matters arising from that Committee because some media had reported them incorrectly. He has a right—
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