A year of committee decisions, recorded in three languages.
Every month for the past year, OneText Initiative has compiled the decisions of Sri Lanka's Sectoral
Oversight Committees, Ministerial Consultative Committees and other parliamentary committees into a
single public record — in English, Sinhala and Tamil. This is how it is made, and what a year of it
looks like.
Editions published
10
Period covered
Jul 2025 – May 2026
Languages
3
Downloads to date
3,397
01 — How each report is made
From the parliamentary record to a single readable document
Committee decisions are public, but they are scattered — spread across sittings, committees and
sessions, and rarely available in more than one language. Each monthly edition exists to gather
them into one place.
01
Obtain the record
Decisions taken by Sri Lanka’s Sectoral Oversight Committees, Ministerial Consultative Committees and other parliamentary committees are gathered as they are recorded.
02
Analyse and verify
The OneText research team works through the record, checks each entry against the source, and reduces it to the decision itself — what was considered, and what was resolved.
03
Prepare in three languages
Every entry is produced in English, Sinhala and Tamil, so the same record is available to all three language communities rather than only one.
04
Publish openly
The month’s entries are compiled into a single document and published here, free to read and download. Background research on parliamentary issues is provided free of charge to member political parties.
A decision that only exists in one language is only available to some of the people it affects.
Every edition is published in English, Sinhala and Tamil
The digests below were generated with an AI tool from each month's report and are provided for
orientation only. They are not produced or verified by the OneText research team, and figures shown
in them should not be cited. The published PDF for each month is the authoritative record.
The Committee on Public Finance raised outward investment limits for local firms and increased duty on beedi tobacco, while oversight of state enterprises turned to audit discrepancies at the State Timber Corporation. New frameworks for vehicle imports, gambling and e-commerce taxation were also tabled.
Committees pressed investigations into financial irregularities at the Civil Aviation Authority and overspending by provincial councils. The month also brought the Gambling Regulatory Authority Bill, updates to national audit law, and consultations on educational reform and X-Press Pearl compensation.
COPE examined the non-repayment of a $24 million loan by the Magampura Port Management Company alongside the Ports Authority’s performance. The Committee on Public Finance sat four times, sectoral committees covered governance, environment, education and health, and both the Women Parliamentarians’ and Youth caucuses convened.
COPE and COPF addressed heavy losses on rice imports and the misuse of funds for legal fees. Legislators advanced the Simplified Value Added Tax and formal regulation of physical and online casinos, while COPA pursued tax arrears and state land revenue for the Colombo Municipal Council.
The Committee on Public Finance examined revenue strategy, international debt management and tax amendments covering gaming and social security. COPE detailed delays and compensation claims at the Colombo Port, alongside the finances of state media institutions and efforts to regulate microfinance lending.
The Committee on Public Finance approved substantial emergency funding following national disasters while handling medicine and taxation updates. Sectoral committees assessed damage to infrastructure and utilities and proposed recovery strategies funded by international loans and grants, alongside progress on digital transformation.
The Committee on Public Finance reviewed 2026 provincial budget allocations and a new Microfinance and Credit Regulatory Authority Bill to protect vulnerable borrowers. Oversight extended to national debt, broadband expansion, customs irregularities at Colombo Port, and the Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus work on harassment and disability inclusion.
Decisions covered motor vehicle registration fees and Port City trade regulation, with structural reform following the dissolution of the Ceylon Electricity Board. The month also examined administrative challenges in the Postal and Archaeology departments, legal hurdles to Provincial Council elections, and tobacco tax evasion.
Proceedings detailed 2026 Budget taxation amendments, including the Social Security Contribution Tax and rules on repatriating export proceeds. A new Insolvency Bill proposed modernised corporate rescue procedures and a regulatory authority, alongside an NDB Bank fraud investigation and an inquiry into Cyclone Ditwah preparedness.
Committees investigated recruitment irregularities at the National Housing Development Authority and loan recovery failures in the Department of Cooperative Development. The Committee on Public Finance reviewed banking fraud, visa system security and the Central Bank’s annual economic performance, with progress on electoral reform.
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