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Hansard of August 06, 2019 273 වන කා ඩය - 7 වන කලාපය 2019 අෙගLස්! 06වන අඟහවාදා ெதாAதி 273 --- இல. 7 2019 ஓகu 06, ெசவா|pகிழைம Volume 273 - No. 7 Tuesday, 06th August, 2019 (හැනසා) பாராfமyற விவாதqக (ஹyசாu) PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) அதிகார அறிpைக OFFICIAL REPORT (අෙශLMත $ටපත / பிைழ தி^wதzபடாதP /Uncorrected) අVතගත )ධාන ක Wෙදන: පා ෙHV! මV& ග සා Vද >සානායක මහතාෙP අභාවය ආංක අN2ෂණ කාරක සභා වාතා )ශ්නවලට වාක $@! ෙපM:ග කව දැYH ?ෙමV ඇ1 )ශ්නය: ෙපK ස් WලධාVට සං^2ත ?මනාව ලබා ?ම ජනාMප ජංගම ෙසJවෙ[? ජාක හැ YHප ෙනKIෙ අය@H කළ &:ගලයV $ ලංකා @ බල (සංෙශLධන) පන ෙකOHපත: ඉ ලා අස්කර ගVනා ල?. பிரதான உளடpக{ அறிவிzWpக: பாராfமyற உ`zபின} மாvWமிA சாbxத திசாநாயpகவினP மரண{ Pைறசா} ேம~பா}ைவp Ah அறிpைகக வினாpகfpA வா|Zல விைடக தனி அறிவிwத Zல வினா : ெபாb உwதிேயாகwத}கfpA இைணxத ெகாLzபனk வழqக ஜனாதிபதி நடமாL{ ேசைவயி இலவசமாக ேதசிய அைடயாள அuைடையz ெபற விvணzபிwேதா} இலqைக மிyசார{ (தி^wத{) சuடZல{: வாப ெபறzபuடP PRINCIPAL CONTENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS: Death of Hon. Salinda Dissanayake, Member of Parliament SECTORAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE REPORTS ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS QUESTION BY PRIVATE NOTICE: Grant of Combined Allowance to Police Officers Applicants for Free National Identity Cards at Presidential Mobile Service SRI LANKA ELECTRICITY (AMENDMENT) BILL: Withdrawn 771 772 පා ෙHV!ව (ii) 2017 වෂය සඳහා $ ජයවධන&ර ශ්වදaාලෙ[ කළමනාකරණ පශ්චා උපාM ආයතනෙ[ වා'ක பாராfமyற{ වාතාව; PARLIAMENT (iii) 2017 වෂය සඳහා ෙමKරOව ශ්වදaාලෙ[ වා'ක වාතාව සහ QH වාතාව; 2019 අෙගLස්! 06වන අඟහවාදා 2019 ஓகu 06, ெசவா|pகிழைம (iv) 2017 වෂය සඳහා $ ලංකා වයඹ ශ්වදaාලෙ[ වා'ක Tuesday, 06th August, 2019 වාතාව හා QH; ——————— (v) 2017 වෂය සඳහා $ ලංකා නැෙඟන7ර ශ්වදaාලෙ[ අ.භා. 1.00ට පා ෙHV!ව ස ය. වා'ක වාතාව; කථානායක!මා [ග ක ජය1ය මහතා] Lලාසනාඪ ය. (vi) 2017 වෂය සඳහා මානව ශාස්$ සහ සමාජ දaා $@බඳ பாராfமyற{ பி.ப.1.00 மணிpAp BJயP. சபாநாயக} அவ}க [மாvWமிA க^ ஜயGாிய] தைலைம උසස් අධaයනය සඳහා ජාක මධaස්ථානෙ[ වා'ක வகிwதா}க. වාතාව; The Parliament met at 1.00 p.m., (vii) 2017 වෂය සඳහා ෙ#රාෙද ය ශ්වදaාලෙ[ මානව MR. SPEAKER [THE HON. KARU JAYASURIYA] in the ශාස්$ සහ සමා$ය දaා පශ්චා උපාM ආයතනෙ[ Chair. වා'ක වාතාව; (viii) 2017 වෂය සඳහා කැල ය ශ්වදaාලෙ[ ගHපහ Wෙදන 8මාර ආ^ෙද දaායතනෙ[ වා'ක වාතාව; සහ அறிவிzWpக ANNOUNCEMENTS (ix) 2017 වෂය සඳහා ෙකKළඹ ශ්වදaාල]ය පගණක අධaයනායතනෙ[ වා'ක වාතාව. පා ෙHV! මV& ග සා Vද >සානායක එම වාතා අධaාපනය හා මානව සHප සංවධනය $@බඳ මහතාෙP අභාවය ආංක අN2ෂණ කාරක සභාව ෙවත ෙයKK කළ ^!යැ\ මම பாராfமyற உ`zபின} மாvWமிA சாbxத ෙයLජනා කරI. திசாநாயpகவினP மரண{ DEATH OF HON. SALINDA DISSANAYAKE, MEMBER OF )ශ්නය මසන ල>V, සභා සHමත ය. PARLIAMENT வினா விLpகzபuL ஏ~`pெகாளzபuடP. Question put, and agreed to. ග කථානායක!මා (மாvWமிA சபாநாயக} அவ}க) ග ගයVත කණාලක මහතා (ඉඩH සහ (The Hon. Speaker) පා ෙHV! )සංස්කරණ අමාතa!මා හා ආ a 5ණෑගල >ස්%2 පා ෙHV! මV&, ග සා Vද පාශ්වෙ[ )ධාන සංධායක!මා) (மாvWமிA கயxத க^ணாதிலpக - காணி ம~`{ பாராf >සානායක මැ!මාෙP අභාවය මා ෙමම පා ෙHV!වට දVවා மyற ம`சீரைமzW அைமrச^{ அரசாqகp கuசியிy .MVෙV බලව කනගාOෙවW. එ!මාෙP අභාවය Wසා අපට Yத~ேகாலாசாT{) .@ ඇ පාaව ගැන අප දැ_ ෙස @2වන අතර, එ!මාෙP (The Hon. Gayantha Karunatileka - Minister of Lands and පෙ අය ෙවත අපෙP සාශය සංෙගය )කාශ කරන බව Parliamentary Reforms and Chief Government Whip) පා ෙHV!ව ෙවYෙවV දVවY කැමැෙතI. ග කථානායක!මW, @ බල, බලශ2 සහ වaාපාර සංවධන අමාතa !මා ෙවYෙවV 2015 වෂය සඳහා $ ලංකා ෙH $@බඳ ෙශLක )කාශ ෙයLජනාව ම! >නයක? 0Wතa පා ෙHV!වට ඉ>ප කරY ඇත. බලශ2 අMකාෙ[ වා'ක වාතාව මම ඉ>ප කරI. $ ෙ ඛනා>ය $@ගැVම එම වාතාව බලශ2 $@බඳ ආංක අN2ෂණ කාරක சம}zபிpகzபuட பwதிரqக සභාව ෙවත ෙයKK කළ ^!යැ\ මම ෙයLජනා කරI. PAPERS PRESENTED )ශ්නය මසන ල>V, සභා සHමත ය. வினா விLpகzபuL ஏ~`pெகாளzபuடP. ග රෆ් හ4H මහතා (නගර සැල0H, ජල සHපාදන සහ Question put, and agreed to. උසස් අධaාපන අමාතa!මා) (மாvWமிA ற kz ஹகீ{ - நகரw திuடமிட, நீ} வழqக ம~ `{ உய} கவி அைம rச}) - ග ගයVත කණාලක මහතා (The Hon. Rauff Hakeem Minister of City Planning, Water (மாvWமிA கயxத க^ணாதிலpக) Supply and Higher Education) (The Hon. Gayantha Karunatileka) ග කථානායක!මW, මම පහත සඳහV වාතා ඉ>ප ග කථානායක!මW, මහාමාග හා මාග සංවධන සහ කරI. ඛWජ ෙත සHප සංවධන අමාතa!මා ෙවYෙවV 2016 (i) 2017 වෂය සඳහා ෙ#රාෙද ය ශ්වදaාලෙ[ වා'ක වෂය සඳහා ලංකා ඛWජ ෙත Xගත සංස්ථාෙ වා'ක වාතාව; වාතාව මම ඉ>ප කරI. 773 පා ෙHV!ව 774 [ග ගයVත කණාලක මහතා] ෙකOHප සHපාදක ෙවත ෙයKK කරලා ෙබනවා. ඒ අYව අද උෙ: ඒ සHබVධ වාතාව අප ෙවත ලැ8ණා. X ෙකOHප එම වාතාව බලශ2 $@බඳ ආංක අN2ෂණ කාරක සභාව සHපාදක .V සකසන ලද එම වාතාෙ සඳහV සංෙශLධන අද ෙවත ෙයKK කළ ^!යැ\ මම ෙයLජනා කරI. >න කාරක සභාෙ? ඉ>ප 3මට බලාෙපKෙරK! ෙවන බව )කාශ කර .Mනවා. )ශ්නය මසන ල>V, සභා සHමත ය. வினா விLpகzபuL ஏ~`pெகாளzபuடP. සභාෙHසය මත 6ය ^!ය\ WෙයLග කරන ල?. சபாVடwதி இ^pகp கuடைளயிடzபuடP. Question put, and agreed to. Ordered to lie upon the Table. ග ගයVත කණාලක මහතා (மாvWமிA கயxத க^ணாதிலpக) (The Hon. Gayantha Karunatileka) ග කථානායක!මW, Wවාස, ඉ>3H සහ සංස්කෘක ෙපසH කට^! අමාතa!මා ෙවYෙවV මම පහත සඳහV වාතා ඉ>ප மTpக කරI. PETITIONS (i) 2014 අංක 33 දරන ඉ>3H කමාVත සංවධන පනෙ 52(2) වගVය සමඟ 3යය ^! එ4 පනෙ 58 ග අෙශL2 අෙ5.ංහ මහතා ()වාහන හා . SවV වගVය යටෙ රකවරයV යාප>ං 3ම ෙසJවා රාජa අමාතa!මා) සHබVධෙයV Wවාස, ඉ>3H සහ සංස්කෘක කට^! (மாvWமிA அேசாp அேபசிqக - ேபாpAவரwP ம~`{ අමාතaවරයා .V සාදන ල@ව, 2019 මා! 08 >නැ சிவி விமானr ேசைவக இராஜாqக அைமrச}) අංක 2113/63 දරන අ ෙශJෂ ගැසL ප$ෙ[ පළ කරන (The Hon. Ashok Abeysinghe - State Minister of Transport ලද WෙයLග; and Civil Aviation) ග කථානායක!මW, 5ණෑගල, ෙගKඩවත, අංක 28 (ii) 2014 අංක 33 දරන ඉ>3H කමාVත සංවධන පනෙ දරන ස්ථානෙය7 ප>ං 7. 0වV@ෙගKඩ මහIයෙගV ලැ8 53(2) සහ 54(1)(අ) වගV සමඟ 3යය ^! එ4 පනෙ ෙපසම2 මම $@ගVවI. 58 වගVය යටෙ අ@යාචනා කාය පMපාMය සHබVධෙයV Wවාස, ඉ>3H සහ සංස්කෘක කට^! ග අ# මාVන#ෙපම මහතා (මහවැ සංවධන හා අමාතaවරයා .V සාදන ල@ව, 2019 මා! 28 >නැ පසර රාජa අමාතa!මා) අංක 2116/47 දරන අ ෙශJෂ ගැසL ප$ෙ[ පළ කරන (மாvWமிA அஜிw மாyனzெப^ம - மகாவB அபிவி^wதி ලද WෙයLග; සහ ம~`{ F~றாட இராஜாqக அைமrச}) (The Hon. Ajith Mannapperuma - State Minister of (iii) 2014 අංක 33 දරන ඉ>3H කමාVත සංවධන පනෙ Mahaweli Development and Environment) 55(2) වගVය සමඟ 3යය ^! එ4 පනෙ 58 ග කථානායක!මW, ය2කල, .ෙදරණවත, අංක වගVය යටෙ ෙතKර! ෙ කH කායාලය 48/15/1 දරන ස්ථානෙය7 ප>ං ආ.`.ෙ".ආ. +යදශණ සHබVධෙයV Wවාස, ඉ>3H සහ සංස්කෘක කට^! මහතාෙගV ලැ8 ෙපසම2 මම $@ගVවI. අමාතaවරයා .V සාදන ල@ව, 2019 මා! 28 >නැ අංක 2116/48 දරන අ ෙශJෂ ගැසL ප$ෙ[ පළ කරන ග ම7VදානVද අ ගමෙP මහතා ලද WෙයLග. (மாvWமிA மஹிxதானxத அDwகமேக) (The Hon. Mahindananda Aluthgamage) එම WෙයLග ෙසMඛa හා මානව 0භසාධනය, සමාජ ග කථානායක!මW, ගHෙපKල හරහා, Jතලාව, මලංගKව, සබලගැVම $@බඳ ආංක අN2ෂණ කාරක සභාව ෙවත "ජය $ Wවස" යන $නෙය7 ප>ං ෙ".ආ.ඒ.ආ.ආ. ෙයKK කළ ^!යැ\ මම ෙයLජනා කරI.
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