The Hon. (Ms.) Lakmali Hemachandra, Attorney-at-Law
Hon. Lakmali Hemachandra argued that the dignity of public representatives does not depend on the existence of a parliamentary pension. She said respect must be earned through public trust and urged all representatives to work toward that standard.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 I will conclude, Hon. Deputy Chairperson of Committees.
¶ 02 In closing, let me state clearly: a public representative is not degraded simply because there is no parliamentary pension. Respect for a public representative must be earned by winning the people’s trust. That is the real struggle before us. You must do it. We will do it. Let us all do it. Only then will we truly be respected. With that reminder, I conclude my remarks. Thank you very much for the time granted, Hon. Deputy Chairperson of Committees.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Tuesday, 17 February 2026 ·No. 23279 ·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/5896
Cite as: The Hon. (Ms.) Lakmali Hemachandra, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 17 February 2026. No. 23279. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5896