Debate on no-faith motion next week

The Committee on Parliamentary Business, chaired by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, yesterday decided that the no-faith motion debate, against the Minister of Health, Keheliya Rambukwella, will be held on the 6th, 7th and 8th of September.

Parliament is scheduled to meet from Tuesday the 5th, to Friday the 8th, in the coming week, and each day, from 9.30 am to 10.30 am, has been allotted for Questions for Oral Answers.

The debate on the Ayurveda (Amendment) Bill (second reading) is scheduled to be held on 05th Sept., from 10.30 am to 5.00 pm. Subsequently, the Private Member’s Bills Sri Balabhivurdhi Wardhana Samitiya (Incorporation) Bill and Samadhi Community Development Foundation Bill, will be taken for second reading. From 5.00 pm to 5.30 pm, the Motion at the Adjournment Time by the government will be debated.

Order under the Foreign Exchange Act published in the Extraordinary Gazette Notification No. 2338/40 and the Regulations published in Extraordinary Gazette Notification No. 2341/38, under the Import and Export (Control) Act, have been scheduled to be approved, without debate, on 6th Sept., at around 10. 30 a.m.

Thereafter, the no-confidence motion against the Minister of Health, Keheliya Rambukwella, will be taken up for debate, till 5.30 pm.The Secretary General further said that it was decided to hold this debate for the second and third days on Thursday, 7th September and Friday, 8th September, from 10.30 am to 5.30 pm. Also, the vote on the no- confidence motion is scheduled to be held on the 8th at 5.30 pm.