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The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake

New Democratic Front· National List· 4 June 2025 ·Procedural: Procedural Matter: Access to Hansard and Tabled Annexes

Parliamentary Procedure
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Ravi Karunanayake raised a procedural concern that annexes tabled with answers to parliamentary questions are not being made available to Members, despite being requested to save time. He said this prevented him from effectively asking a question of the Prime Minister and asked whether the failure to provide such annexes constitutes a problem in parliamentary procedure.

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¶ 01 That is true, Hon. Speaker. But when a Question is asked and you request that Annexes be tabled to save time—as even you urge us to do—still we do not seem to have access to them. I am prepared to ask a Question of the Hon. Prime Minister today, but the Annexes have not been provided. Then that becomes an obstacle. If Annexes tabled with Answers are not made available, is that not a problem?

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Hansard, Wednesday, 4 June 2025 ·No. 1750240054043973 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 4 June 2025. No. 1750240054043973. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/7694