2026-02-20 / Oral Question: Investments received after November 2024 (Q.No. 11/2025) and procedural matter

Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri

2026-02-20

Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri raised a procedural grievance regarding the consistent exclusion of his questions from the Order Paper, including a Standing Order 32 question. He noted that deferral practices — typically resulting in a two-week delay per deferral — had caused one of his questions to go unanswered for six months after three consecutive deferrals. The member alleged that an official was deliberately preventing his questions from being included on the Order Paper, calling the situation unfair.

Hon. Speaker, I have submitted a question under Standing Order 32. My question is not being placed on the Order Paper. I have repeatedly raised this. Yesterday I asked a question that had already been deferred three times. When a question is deferred, it is usually for two weeks, which means it returns to the Order Paper only after three sitting weeks. I finally got to ask it after six months. This is unfair to me. My SO 32 question is still not on the Order Paper. Hon. Speaker, I say that some official is deliberately blocking my questions from being included.