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Hansard of February 19, 2020 276 වන කා ඩය - 5 වන කලාපය 2020 ෙපබරවා 19 වන බදාදා ெதாAதி 276 --- இல. 5 2020 ெபz^வாி 19, Wதyகிழைம Volume 276 - No. 5 Wednesday, 19th February, 2020 (හැනසා) பாராfமyற விவாதqக (ஹyசாu) PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) அதிகார அறிpைக OFFICIAL REPORT (අෙශLMත $ටපත / பிைழ தி^wதzபடாதP /Uncorrected) අVතගත )ධාන ක ගණකාMපවරයාෙP වාතාව වර) සාද: රජෙ[ Kද $@බඳ කාරක සභාෙ වාතාව 2020 ෙපබරවා 16 >න “සVෙ^ අ\ලV^” වාතාව ආංක අN2ෂණ කාරක සභා වාතා 2020 ෙපබරවා 19 >න “ලංකා?ප” වාතාව )ශ්නවලට වාක $@! $ ලංකා පසර වෘ යෙ?VෙP ආයතනය (සංස්ථාගත 3ෙH) පන ෙකOHපත: ෙපM:ග කව දැYH ?ෙමV ඇ0 )ශ්නය: සලකා බලා !Vවන වර 3යවා සංෙශLMතාකාරෙයV කාVතා හා ළමා අපචාර සHමත කරන ල? 2019 අ.ෙපK.ස. 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Dinesh Gunawardena) ග කථානායක!මW, කාVතා හා ළමා කට^! සහ සමාජ අ.භා. 1.00ට පා ෙHV!ව ස ය. ආර2ෂණ අමාතa!Iය සහ ෙසMඛa සහ ෙ:ය ෛවදa ෙසJවා කථානායක!මා [ග ක ජය1ය මහතා] Lලාසනාඪ ය. අමාතa!Iය ෙවYෙවV, (105 අMකාරය) ෛවදa ආඥාපනෙ பாராfமyற{ பி .ப .1.00 மணிpAp BJயP. 72 වගVය සමඟ 3යය ^! 19(ඉ) වගVය යටෙ ෙසMඛa, சபாநாயக} அவ}க [மாvWமிA க^ ஜயGாிய] தைலைம ෙපLෂණ හා ෙ:ය ෛවදa අමාතaවරයා .V සාදන ල@ව, வகிwதா}க. 2018 ජනවා 26 >නැ අංක 2055/54 දරන අ ෙශJෂ ගැසL The Parliament met at 1.00 p.m., ප$ෙ[ පළ කරන ලද WෙයLග සහ එම WෙයLග සංෙශLධනය MR. SPEAKER [THE HON. KARU JAYASURIYA] in the Chair. කරIV ෙසMඛa සහ ෙ:ය ෛවදa ෙසJවා අමාතaවරයා .V සාදන ල@ව, 2019 ෙදසැHබ 26 >නැ අංක 2155/15 දරන අ ගණකාMපවරයාෙP වාතාව ෙශJෂ ගැසL ප$ෙ[ පළ කරන ලද WෙයLග මම ඉ>ප කරI. கணpகா|வாள} அதிபதியினP அறிpைக එම WෙයLග ෙසMඛa හා මානව 0බසාධනය, සමාජ AUDITOR -GENERAL’S REPORT සබලගැVම $@බඳ ආංක අN2ෂණ කාරක සභාව ෙවත ෙයKK කළ ^!යැ\ මම ෙයLජනා කරI. ග කථානායක!මා (மாvWமிA சபாநாயக} அவ}க) )ශ්නය මසන ල>V, සභා සHමත ය. (The Hon. Speaker) வினா விLpகzபuL ஏ~`pெகாளzபuடP. $ ලංකා )ජාතාV%ක සමාජවා? ජනරජෙ[ ආ a8ම Question put, and agreed to. වaවස්ථාෙ 154(6) වaවස්ථාව )කාරව, • 2013 Kද වෂය සඳහා ගණකාMපවරයාෙP වාතාෙ ග >ෙVෂ Sණවධන මහතා ෙතවැW කා ඩෙ[ XI ෙකKටස; (மாvWமிA திேன Aணவ}தன) • (The Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena) 2016 Kද වෂය සඳහා ගණකාMපවරයාෙP වාතාෙ ග කථානායක!මW,ෙතKර! සහ ජනමාධa අමාතa!මා නවවැW කා ඩෙ[ XVI ෙකKටස; සහ උසස් අධaාපන, තා2ෂණ සහ නෙවLපාදන අමාතa!මා • 2017 Kද වෂය සඳහා ගණකාMපවරයාෙP වාතාෙ ෙවYෙවV මම 2017 වෂය සඳහා ජාක පෙ[ෂණ සභාෙ ෙදවැW කා ඩෙ[ XXV ෙකKටස, ෙතවැW කා ඩෙ[ XI වා'ක වාතාව ඉ>ප කරI. ෙකKටස සහ නවවැW කා ඩෙ[ XII, XIII, XIV හා XV ෙකKටස්; එම වාතාව අධaාපනය හා මානව සHප සංවධනය • 2018 Kද වෂය සඳහා ගණකාMපවරයාෙP වාතාෙ $@බඳ ආංක අN2ෂණ කාරක සභාව ෙවත ෙයKK කළ ^!යැ\ ෙදවැW කා ඩෙ[ XXIII හා XXIV ෙකKටස්, ෙතවැW මම ෙයLජනා කරI. කා ඩෙ[ XII ෙකKටස සහ නවවැW කා ඩෙ[ X, XI හා XII ෙකKටස්; සහ )ශ්නය මසන ල>V, සභා සHමත ය. வினா விLpகzபuL ஏ~`pெகாளzபuடP. ••• 2020 Kද වෂය සඳහා ගණකාMපවරයාෙP වාතාෙ Question put, and agreed to. අටවැW කා ඩෙ[ II ෙකKටස මම ඉ>ප කරI. ග >ෙVෂ Sණවධන මහතා ග >ෙVෂ් Sණවධන මහතා (ෙ:ශ සබඳතා අමාතa, (மாvWமிA திேன Aணவ}தன) W&ණතා සංවධන, 4ර2ෂා හා කHක සබඳතා (The Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena) අමාතa සහ පා ෙHV!ෙ සභානායක!මා) ග කථානායක!මW, රාජa පපාලන, ස්වෙ:ශ කට^!, (மாvWமிA திேன Aணவ}தன - ெவளிநாuL உறkக පළා සභා හා පළා පාලන අමාතa!මා ෙවYෙවV මම, රජෙ[ அைமrச^{ திறyக அபிவி^wதி, ெதாழிPைற ம~`{ QH $@බඳ කාරක සභාව .V 2019.06.21 >න ெதாழி உறkக அைமrச^{ பாராfமyறr சைப Yதவ^{) පා ෙHV!ව ෙවත ඉ>ප කරන ලද අටවැW පා ෙHV!ෙ ෙතවැW සභාවාරෙ[ ෙතවැW වාතාෙ මධaම (The Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena - Minister of Foreign Relations, Minister of Skills Development, Employment and පළාෙ පළා පාලන ආයතනවල 2017 වෂෙ[ කාය සාධනය Labour Relations and Leader of the House of Parliament) සHබVධෙයV සඳහV ක $@බඳව පා ෙHV!ෙ ස්ථාවර ග කථානායක!මW, "එ4 වාතා KFණය කළ ^!ය" \ WෙයLග 119(4) )කාරව W2ෂණ සහ ගY ලැ9 9යාමාග මම ෙයLජනා කරI. $@බඳ වාතාව ඉ>ප කරI. )ශ්නය මසන ල>V, සභා සHමත ය. வினா விLpகzபuL ஏ~`pெகாளzபuடP. එම වාතාව රජෙ[ QH $@බඳ කාරක සභාව ෙවත ෙයKK Question put, and agreed to. කළ ^!යැ\ මම ෙයLජනා කරI. වාතාව KFණය කළ ^!ය\ WෙයLග කරන ල?. )ශ්නය මසන ල>V, සභා සHමත ය. அறிpைக அrசிடzபடp கuடைளயிடzபuடP. வினா விLpகzபuL ஏ~`pெகாளzபuடP. Ordered that the Report be printed. Question put, and agreed to. 565 පා ෙHV!ව 566 ග >ෙVෂ් Sණවධන මහතා ග ම\ වාගනH ලකරාජා මහතා (மாvWமிA திேன Aணவ}தன) (மாvWமிA மயிவாகன{ திலகராஜா) (The Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena) (The Hon. Mylvaganam Thilakarajah) ග කථානායක!මW, 5ඩා හා මධa පමාණ වaාපාර සහ ග කථානායක!මW, මට නා_ 37පය2 ලබා ෙදVන වaවසාය සංවධන අමාතa!මා සහ කමාVත සහ සැප^H &BවVද, ෙH ගැන ෙකM පැහැ> 3ම2 කරVන. කළමනාකරණ අමාතa !මා ෙවYෙවV මම, 2013, 2014 සහ ග කථානායක!මා 2015 වෂ සඳහා ත සංවධන ම ඩලෙ[ වා'ක වාතා (மாvWமிA சபாநாயக} அவ}க) ඉ>ප කරI. (The Hon. Speaker) ඔ, ෙකMෙයV පැහැ> කරVන ග මV&!මා. එම වාතා Wෂ්පාදන හා ෙසJවා $@බඳ ආංක අN2ෂණ ග ම\ වාගනH ලකරාජා මහතා කාරක සභාව ෙවත ෙයKK කළ ^! යැ\ මම ෙයLජනා කරI. (மாvWமிA மயிவாகன{ திலகராஜா) (The Hon. Mylvaganam Thilakarajah) )ශ්නය මසන ල>V, සභා සHමත ය. ெகௗரவ சபாநாயக} அவ}கேள, இxத நாuJy வினா விLpகzபuL ஏ~`pெகாளzபuடP. சனwெதாைகயி ஒ^ மிbயTpA{ ேமலான சனwெதாைக Question put, and agreed to. ையp ெகாvJ^pகpBJய ெப^xேதாuடr சZக{ சா}xத ேதசியr Fகாதார Yைறைம இலாைமையp க^wதி~ ெகாvL கடxத பல காலமாகz ேபசzபuL வxதேபாP{Bட, රජෙ[ Kද $@බඳ කාරක සභාෙ වාතාව ெப^xேதாuட FகாதாரwPைற அரசாqகwதி~A உவாq கzபடாைம காரணமாகz ெப^xேதாuடqகைள நி}வகிpA{ அரசாqக நிதி ப~றிய Ahவிy அறிpைக ெப^xேதாuடp க{பனிகேள அxதr Fகாதார Yைறைமைய PUBLIC FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT நி}வகிwP வxதி^pகிyறன.
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