The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake

New Democratic Front· National List· 27 November 2025 ·Oral question: Oral Question: Total Foreign and Domestic Debt with Supplementaries (Q.315/2024 (2))

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Asked under Standing Order 27(2) how a debt standstill was declared without parliamentary approval. He further questioned whether the lack of such approval is the reason the Government is unable to borrow.

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¶ 01 The question is not about time, but the answer. Briefly, under Standing Order 27(2), how was a debt standstill declared without Parliament’s approval? And is that why you cannot borrow?

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Source: Hansard, Thursday, 27 November 2025 ·No. 23013 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 27 November 2025. No. 23013. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5273