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COPE, PAC increased to 24-members each following Opposition demands
View(s):The number of members to be appointed to the two Parliamentary oversight committees, the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was this week increased to 24.
This was after several Opposition lawmakers had wanted more MPs named to the Committees following Speaker Karu Jayasuirya’s announcement of 12 members each, named to COPE and PAC.
The members appointed to COPE so far are Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Dayasiri Jayasekera, Wasantha Aluwihare, Dr Harsha De Silva, Ajith P. Perera, Ranjan Ramanayake, Ashok Abeysinghe, Chandrasiri Gajadeera, Sunil Handunnetti, Bimal Ratnayake, M.A. Sumanthiran and Gnanamutthu Srineshan.
The PAC members named are Mahinda Samarasinghe, P. Harrison, Palitha Ranga Bandara, Niroshan Perera, Sujeewa Senasinghe, Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Eran Wickramaratne, Vijitha Herath, Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Dr Nalinda Jayatissa, S. Viyalanderan and S. Sritharan.
Chairpersons of the two committees will be decided upon by the respective members when all the appointees have been named.