The 27/2 Speech Book

Standing Order 27/2 is one of the most direct tools available to a Opposition party leader of Parliament. It allows MPs to raise urgent matters of public importance on the floor of the House — putting critical issues on the national agenda with immediacy and force. The Leader of the Opposition uses this mechanism actively, and those interventions deserve to be preserved, accessible, and documented alongside the government's formal responses. The 27/2 Speech Book records selected parliamentary speeches and questions raised by the Leader of the Opposition under this Standing Order. Each entry is paired with the government's response, sourced directly from the official Hansard. The collection forms a curated, Hansard-verified record of the opposition's most important parliamentary interventions — a resource for researchers, media, legal practitioners, and citizens who want to understand how Parliament has addressed the most urgent issues facing Sri Lanka. The book is updated continuously throughout 2026.