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The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake - Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House of Parliament

Jathika Jana balawegaya· National List· 18 February 2025 ·Debate: Adjourned Debate on Second Reading of the 2025 Budget

Parliamentary Procedure
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The Leader of the House asked Members to allow the Government’s allotted time to proceed after others had already spoken. He requested that the House move on to the Budget debate and called on Deputy Minister Hon. Mahinda Jayasinghe to speak next.

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¶ 01 You spoke already. Now it is our time. Please give us our time.

¶ 02 Mr. Speaker

¶ 03 Let us move to the Budget debate. Next, the Hon. Mahinda Jayasinghe, Deputy Minister. [Proceedings continued.]

¶ 04 [10.56 a.m.]

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Hansard, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 ·No. 1740219460090985 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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