The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House of Parliament
Moved and secured agreement for several procedural motions governing the sitting and committee arrangements of the First Session of the Tenth Parliament. These included setting the day’s sitting hours, appointing a 12-member Committee of Selection under Standing Order 114B, suspending Standing Order 111 until 31 January 2025, and temporarily substituting references to Sectoral Oversight Committees with Ministerial Consultative Committees in Standing Order 50(2) until the same date.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sittings of the Parliament
¶ 02 Hon. Speaker, I move: “Notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 8, the time of today’s sitting be from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 1.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., and at 5.30 p.m. the Speaker shall adjourn the Parliament without question put.”
¶ 03 Question put, and agreed to.
¶ 04 Committee of Selection
¶ 05 Hon. Speaker, I move: “In terms of Standing Order 114B, a Committee of Selection be appointed for the First Session of the Tenth Parliament consisting of twelve (12) Members, including the Speaker as Chair and the Leaders of Political Parties or their nominees, and other Members nominated by Parliament.”
¶ 06 Question put, and agreed to.
¶ 07 Hon. Speaker, I move: “That the following twelve (12) Members be appointed to serve in the Committee of Selection for the First Session of the Tenth Parliament:
¶ 08 - Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa - Hon. Ramalingam Chandraseker - Hon. K. V. Samantha Vidyaratna - Hon. Anura Karunathilaka - Hon. (Mrs.) Saroja Sachithri Polraj - Hon. Eranga Gunasekera - Hon. Muneer Moulafar - Hon. Gayantha Karunatilleka - Hon. Rauff Hakeem, Attorney-at-Law - Hon. Ravi Karunanayake - Hon. Pathmanathan Sathyalingam”
¶ 09 Question put, and agreed to.
¶ 10 Business of the Parliament
¶ 11 Hon. Speaker, I move: “That Standing Order 111 of the Parliament be suspended until 31 January 2025.”
¶ 12 Question put, and agreed to.
¶ 13 Hon. Speaker, I move: “That in Standing Order 50(2), the words ‘to the Sectoral Oversight Committee’ be temporarily replaced by the words ‘to the Ministerial Consultative Committee’, to be operative until 31 January 2025.”
¶ 14 Question put, and agreed to.
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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/29743