The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House of Parliament
Minister Bimal Rathnayake referred to Standing Order 31 to clarify that simply standing up does not entitle a Member to the microphone during proceedings. He stated that, under the Standing Orders, questions on public affairs may be directed to the Prime Minister or to the relevant Minister responsible for the subject or function assigned by the President.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Being “on your feet” does not give you the microphone. What Standing Order is it? Let me read: Standing Order 31 states:
¶ 02 “During the conduct of business provided for by these Standing Orders, questions on public affairs may be put to the Prime Minister or to a Minister responsible for any subject or functions assigned by the President.”
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Tuesday, 3 December 2024 ·No. 1733459564028450 ·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/29729
Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House of Parliament. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 3 December 2024. No. 1733459564028450. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/29729