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2012.03.22 (207-09) 207 වන කාණ්ඩය - 9 වන කලාපය 2012 මාර්තු 22 වන බහසපතින්දා් ெதாகுதி 207 - இல. 9 2012 மார்ச் 22, வியாழக்கிழைம Volume 207 - No. 9 Thursday, 22nd March, 2012 පාලෙනත වාද (හැනසා) பாராமன்ற விவாதங்கள் (ஹன்சாட்) PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) ල වාතාව அதிகார அறிக்ைக OFFICIAL REPORT (අෙශෝධිත පිටපත /பிைழ தித்தப்படாத /Uncorrected) අන්තර්ගත පධාන කරුණු නිෙව්දන: රාජ්‍ය ආරක්ෂක ෙසවාේ අණ සහ මාණ්ඩලික විද්‍යාලය උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා රැස්වීම් (සංෙශෝධන) පනත් ෙකටුම්පත: ෙදවන වර සහ තුන්වන වර කියවා සම්මත කරන ලදී පශනවලට් වාචික පිළිතුරු කල්තැබීෙම් ෙයෝජනාව: ෙපෞද්ගලිකව දැනුම් දීෙමන් ඇසූ පශනය් : කාන්තාවනට සමාජ සාධාරණය ෙකොළඹ ජාතික ෙකෞතුකාගාරෙය් ඓතිහාසික භාණ්ඩ ෙසොරා ගැනීම පශනවලට් ලිඛිත පිළිතුරු ෙපෞද්ගලික මන්තීන්ෙග් පනත් ෙකටුම්පත්: ශී ලංකා පරිපාලන සංවර්ධන හා පර්ෙය්ෂණ ආයතනය (සංස්ථාගත කිරීෙම්) - [ගරු නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා] - පළමුවන වර කියවන ලදී ශී ලංකා පරිගණක සංගමය (සංසථාගත් කිරීෙම්) -[ගරු තිලංග සුමතිපාල මහතා]- පළමුවන වර කියවන ලදී பிரதான உள்ளடக்கம் அறிவிப்க்கள்: பாகாப்ச் ேசைவகள் ஏவல் மற்ம் பணியாட்ெடாகுதி கல்ாி ஆேலாசைனக்குக் கூட்டங்கள் (தித்தம்) சட்டலம்: இரண்டாம், ன்றாம் ைறகள் மதிப்பிடப்பட் வினாக்கக்கு வாய்ல விைடகள் நிைறேவற்றப்பட்ட தனி அறிவித்தல் ல வினா: ஒத்திைவப்ப் பிேரரைண: ெகாம் ேதசிய தனசாைலயில் வரலாற்ச் சின்னங்கள் ெபண்கக்குச் சக நீதி களவாடப்பட்டைம வினாக்கக்கு எத்ல விைடகள் தனி உப்பினர் சட்டலங்கள்: இலங்ைக நிவாக அபிவித்தி, ஆராய்ச்சி நிவகம் (கூட்ைணத்தல்) - [மாண்மிகு நாமல் ராஜபக்ஷ] - தன்ைற மதிப்பிடப்பட்ட இலங்ைக கணனிச் சங்கம் (கூட்ைணத்தல்) - [மாண்மிகு திலங்க சுமதிபால] - தன்ைற மதிப்பிடப்பட்ட PRINCIPAL CONTENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS: DEFENCE SERVICES COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE Consultative Committee Meetings (AMENDMENT) BILL: Read a Second, and the Third time, and passed ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ADJOURNMENT MOTION: QUESTION BY PRIVATE NOTICE: Social Justice to Women Theft of artefacts from Colombo National Museum WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BILLS: Sri Lanka Administrative Development and Research Institute (Incorporation) - [The Hon. Namal Rajapaksa] - Read the First time Computer Society of Sri Lanka (Incorporation) - [The Hon. Thilanga Sumathipala] - Read the First time 1359 2012 මාර්තු 22 1360 උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභාවක රැස්වීමකට සහභාගි වීමට සෑම ගරු පාර්ලිෙම්න්තුව පාර්ලිෙම්න්තු මන්තීවරයකුටම හැකි බව ෙමම අවස්ථාෙව්දී பாராமன்றம் සිහිපත් කරමි. උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා රැස්වීම් නිති පතා PARLIAMENT පැවැත්වීම සඳහා ගරු මන්තීවරුන්ෙග් සහභාගිත්වය ඉතාමත් —————–—- වැදගත් වන ෙහයින්, එකී රැස්වීම්වලට සහභාගි වීෙමන් උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා ශක්තිමත්ව පවත්වා ගැනීමට සහෙයෝගය ලබා ෙදන ෙමන් සියලුම ගරු මන්තීවරුන්ෙගන් මම ඉල්ලා 2012 මාර්තු 22 වන බහසපතින්දා් සිටීමට කැමැත්ෙතමි. 2012 மார்ச் 22, வியாழக்கிழைம Thursday, 22nd March, 2012 —————————————- ෙපත්සම් மக்கள் අ. භා. 1.00ට පාර්ලිෙම්න්තුව රැස ් විය. කථානායකතුමා [ගරු චමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා] මූලාසනාරූඪ විය. PETITIONS பாராமன்றம் பி. ப. 1.00 மணிக்குக் கூய. சபாநாயகர் அவர்கள் [மாண்மிகு சமல் ராஜபக்ஷ] தைலைம வகித்தார்கள். ගරු වාසුෙද්ව නානායක්කාර මහතා (ජාතික භාෂා හා The Parliament met at 1.00 p. m., MR. SPEAKER [THE HON. සමාජ ඒකාබද්ධතා අමාත්‍යතුමා) CHAMAL RAJAPAKSA] in the Chair. (மாண்மிகு வாசுேதவ நாணாயக்கார - ேதசிய ெமாழிகள், சக ஒைமப்பாட் அைமச்சர்) (The Hon. Vasudeva Nanayakkara - Minister of National Languages and Social Integration) නිෙව්දන ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, මම කුරුවිට, ෙදවිපහල, அறிவிப்க்கள் ඇටවරාෙදනිය යන ලිපිනෙයහි පදිංචි ෙක්.ජී. ලයනල් එදිරිසූරිය ANNOUNCEMENTS මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු ෙපත්සමක් පිළිගන්වමි. උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා රැසවීම්් කථානායකතුමා ஆேலாசைனக் குக்கூட்டங்கள் (சபாநாயகர் அவர்கள்) CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS (Mr. Speaker) ගරු නිර්මල ෙකොතලාවල මහතා - පැමිණ නැත. කථානායකතුමා ගරු ලලිත් දිසානායක මහතා - පැමිණ නැත. (சபாநாயகர் அவர்கள்) ගරු ගාමිණී ජයවිකම ෙපෙර්රා මහතා - පැමිණ නැත. (Mr. Speaker) ඇතැම් අමාත්‍යාංශවලට අදාළ පාර්ලිෙම්න්තු උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා රැස්වීම් නිති පතා ෙනොපැවැත්ෙවන බවට ගරු ගරු වික්ටර් ඇන්ටනි මහතා පාර්ලිෙම්න්තු මන්තීවරුන් විසින් පසු ගිය කාලෙය් වරින් වර (மாண்மிகு விக்டர் அந்தனீ) පාර්ලිෙම්න්තුෙව්දී කරන ලද කරුණු දැක්වීම් පිළිබඳව ද,"සෑම (The Hon.Victor Antony) උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභාවක්ම යටත් පිරිෙසයින් මාසයකට වරක් ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, මම පුත්තලම, කිරිවැව අසල, ෙහෝ රැස්වීමක් කැඳවා අර්ථවත් වැඩසටහනක් සකස් කරන බවට පිටවටරවුම් පාර, අංක 02 යන ලිපිනෙයහි පදිංචි ෙක්.එස්. සහතික වීම සෑම අමාත්‍යාංශයකම ෙල්කම්වරයකුෙග් වගකීම විය ෙපේමරත්න මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු ෙපත්සමක් පිළිගන්වමි. යුත්ෙත්ය" යන ස්ථාවර නිෙයෝග 111 පකාරව උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා රැස්වීම් මාසිකව ෙනොපැවැත්ෙවන බවට 2012 ෙපබරවාරි මස 09 දින ගරු සජිත් ෙපේමදාස මහතා මතු කරන ලද රීති පශ්නය ගරු වී.ෙක්. ඉන්දික මහතා ෙකෙරහි ද මාෙග් අවධානය ෙයොමු විය. (மாண்மிகு வி.ேக. இந்திக) (The Hon.V.K. Indika) ෙම් පිළිබඳව ෙසොයා බැලීෙමන් පසුව, එෙසේ නිති පතා රැස්වීම් ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, මම පහත සඳහන් ෙපත්සම් පහ ෙනොපැවැත්වූ උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා අයත් අමාත්‍යාංශවල පිළිගන්වමි. ෙල්කම්වරුන් කැඳවා පසු ගිය දා පැවැත් වූ රැස්වීමකදී, සියලුම (1) බත්තරමුල්ල, දකුණු තලංගම, අංක 817/ඒ, සිංහපුර මාවත උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා රැස්වීම් ස්ථාවර නිෙයෝග 111 පකාරව යන ලිපිනෙයහි පදිංචි එම්.ටී. පීරිස ් මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු මාසිකව පැවැත්විය යුතු බවට මම උපෙදස් ලබා දුනිමි. ෙපත්සම; සෑම උ පෙද්ශක කාරක සභාවකම රැස්වීමක් යටත් පිරිෙසයින් (2) සූරියවැව, විහාරගල, සමගිපුර, අංක 4218 යන ලිපිනෙයහි මාසයකට වරක් ෙහෝ පැවැත්වීම සඳහා සියලුම උපෙද්ශක කාරක පදිංචි ඩී.ජී. විමලවීර මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු ෙපත්සම; සභා සඳහා මාසික රැස්වීම් දින නිශ්චය කරමින් වාර්ෂික (3) හුංගම, බටඅත, 'අමිල' යන ලිපිනෙයහි පදිංචි ඒ.ෙජ්. වැඩසටහනක් පිළිෙයල කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය උපෙදස් දැනටමත් මවිසින් රත්නසිරි මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු ෙපත්සම; ලබා දී ඇති බව පාර්ලිෙම්න්තුවට දැන්වීමට කැමැත්ෙතමි. (4) ලුණුගම්ෙවෙහර, නව නගරය, කුඩාගම් 01, අංක 157 යන ගරු පාර්ලිෙම්න්තු මන්තීවරුන් ෙනොපැමිණීම නිසා රැස්වීම් ලිපිනෙයහි පදිංචි එම්.එල්.ඒ. කරුණාපාල මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු ෙපත්සම; සහ පැවැත්වීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය ගණපූරණය ෙනොමැති වීෙමන් ඇතැම් උපෙද්ශක කාරක සභා රැසවීම්් පැවැත්වීමට ෙනොහැකි වූ (5) හම්බන්ෙතොට, බඳඟිරිය, අංක 298 යන ලිපිනෙයහි පදිංචි අවස්ථාවන් ගැනද මාෙග් අවධානයට ෙයොමු වී ඇත. ඕනෑම ෙක්.එච්. පියෙසනේ මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු ෙපත්සම. 1361 පාර්ලිෙම්න්තුව 1362 ගරු වයි.ජී. පද්මසිරි මහතා සුෙබෝධි කනිෂඨ් විද්‍යාලෙය් සිසුවියන් හය (மாண்மிகு ைவ.ஜீ. பத்மசிாி) ෙශණියේ සඳහා මාලෙබ් රාහුල බාලිකා විද්‍යාලයට (The Hon. Y.G. Padmasiri) ඇතුළත් කර ගන්නා බවත්; ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, මම පහත සඳහන් ෙපත්සම් තුන (ii) එම විදුහෙල් විදුහල්පතිවරයා හය ෙශණියටේ පිළිගන්වමි. ළමයින් ඇතුළත් කර ගැනීෙම්දී පහසුකම් සහ (1) මහනුවර, ෙප්රාෙදණිය පාර, අංක 174/6 යන ලිපිනෙයහි ෙවනත් ගාසතු් ෙලස එක් ළමයකුෙගන් රු. පදිංචි වී.ඒ. සාගරී ධම්මිකා මහත්මියෙගන් ලැබුණු 3,162ක මුදලක් රිසිට්පත් නිකුත් ෙකොට අය කරන ෙපත්සම; බවත්; (2) රුවන්වැල්ල, කහටගසතැන්න් , ෙකොසහින්නෙග්වත්ත් යන (iii) එම මුදලට අමතරව රිසිට්පත් ලබා දීමකින් ෙතොරව ලිපිනෙයහි පදිංචි ෙක්.වී.ඒ. දයානන්ද මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු ෙඩසක්් බංකු සඳහා වියදම් ෙලස පවසමින් තවත් ෙපත්සම; සහ රුපියල් හය දහසක මුදලක් අය කරන බවත්; (3) අනුරාධපුර, මහබුලන්කුලම, උලුක්කුලම, ලංවිම මිනිස ් බල එතුමා දන්ෙනහිද? ෙසවාේ එකමුතුව යන ලිපිනෙයහි ෙසවයේ කරන සඳුන් ටිකිරි (ආ) (i) මාලෙබ් රාහුල බාලිකා විද්‍යාලෙය් කුමාර ෙහරත්ේ මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු ෙපත්සම. විදුහල්පතිවරයාට ඉහත පරිදි මුදල් අය කිරීමට බලයක් තිෙබ්ද; ගරු එස.් සී. මුතුකුමාරණ මහතා (ii) එෙස ේ ෙනොමැති නම්,එම මුදල් අය කිරීම පිළිබඳව (மாண்மிகு எஸ்.சீ. த்குமாரன) විමර්ශනයක් කරන්ෙන්ද; (The Hon. S.C. Mutukumarana) ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, මම පහත සඳහන් ෙපත්සම් තුන යන්න එතුමා ෙමම සභාවට දන්වන්ෙනහිද? පිළිගන්වමි. (ඇ) ෙනොඑෙස ේ නම්, ඒ මන්ද? (1) කැකිරාව, ෙවරුංකුලම පාර, ජාතික නිවාස, අංක 13 යන ලිපිනෙයහි පදිංචි ඒ.එම්. දිසානායක මහතාෙගන් ලැබුණු கல்வி அைமச்சைரக் ேகட்ட வினா: ෙපත්සම; (அ) (i) ெகாம் மாவட்டத்திற்குாிய ஜயவர்தனர (2) ෙපොෙළොන්නරුව , ෙනළුම් වැව, අංක 144 යන ලිපිනෙයහි வலயக் கல்விக் காாியாலயத்தின்லம் நிவகிக் පදිංචි එම්.ඒ.පී.
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