The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Bimal Rathnayake raised a procedural concern about the length and language of ministerial replies, noting that Members may not understand responses given in a Minister’s mother tongue. He said his observation carried no ill intent and urged Ministers to answer briefly to avoid the government side gaining undue speaking time.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, then we will ask Ministers to answer in one sentence. There is a language aspect too. The Minister is speaking in his mother tongue; the Hon. Member may not understand it. I only described what we observed; no ill intent was implied. Ministers should answer briefly; otherwise, the government side gains undue time.
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 July 2025. No. 1752660241032216. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/9194