3109/’12
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake,— To ask the Minister of External Affairs,—
(a) Will he state—
(i) the number of foreign monitoring trips that the Monitoring Member of Parliament (MMP) of External Affairs has taken during the time he was appointed to the said post; and
(ii) whether he is the de facto Minister or Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs?
(b) Will he also state in respect of the aforesaid foreign trips of the MP referred to in (a) (i) on per trip basis—
(i) the costs of air fare;
(ii) the costs of hotel accommodation, internal travel and entertainment expenditure;
(iii) the payments made by the Sri Lanka Embassies abroad to meet the costs of the MMP ; and
(iv) the benefits that the Ministry of External Affairs derived?
(c) If not, why ?
Asked Date
2013-08-08
Asked by
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake, M.P.
Ministry
External Affairs
Legislature
Seventh Parliament of the D.S.R. of Sri Lanka
Session
First Session
ගරු (මහාචාර්ය) ජී.එල්.පීරිස් මහතා (විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යතුමා)
(மாண்புமிகு (பேராசிரியர்) ஜீ.எல். பீரிஸ் - வெளிநாட்ட லுவல்கள் அமைச்சர்)
(The Hon. (Prof.) G.L. Peiris - Minister of External Affairs)
Hon. Speaker, this Question has been asked on a wrong premise. The Hon. Sajin De Vass Gunawardena has not undertaken any overseas visits on behalf of the Ministry of External Affairs. The Ministry of External Affairs has not incurred any expenditure whatsoever on account of overseas visits by the Hon. Sajin De Vass Gunawardena. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, none of the matters referred to in Question No. 4 (b) by the Hon. Member - airfare, hotel accommodation, internal travel and entertainment payments made by the Ministry - arise because no expenses for any of those reasons have been incurred by the Ministry of External Affairs.
Answered Date
2013-10-23
Answered by
Hon. (Prof.) G. L. Peiris, M.P.
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