Speaker firm on PSC report debate

Sandasen Marasinghe and Disna Mudalige

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa told Parliament yesterday that he did not see any reason to postpone the debate on the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) report on the charges in the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayake and ruled to commence the debate.

The Speaker said if the members did not have adequate time to scrutinise the report, they could have raised it at the party leaders’ meeting. He made this observation yesterday, delivering his decision after the debate. The debate took place despite request by opposition members to postpone it for one month.