The Hon. Presiding Member

¶ 01 Assistance to take this forward is what we ask of the Opposition. In the future you will see a smart grid country, a country with pumped storage, and a country with battery backup. All of this will happen under the programme “A Prosperous Country – A Beautiful Life.” We clearly state to the people that we have never acted to undermine solar power. While improving the system, we will act fairly to allocate capacity to those locations that can accommodate it, rather than doing things in an unplanned way as past governments did. The National People’s Power will not implement such ad hoc approaches.

¶ 02 Thank you.

¶ 03 The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. You have 13 minutes.

¶ 04 You had 148 minutes; one minute has been deducted. You now have 138 minutes.

¶ 05 [6.04 p.m.]