Leader of the House and Highways and Higher Education Minister Lakshman Kiriella has observed that the Joint Opposition members must solve their issues with their leader President Maithripala Sirisena and not with the Speaker. Parliament is not the forum to sort out this issue.

JO Leader Dinesh Gunawardena has stated that as the Joint Opposition is Goliath on the Opposition side, it should be given a considerable period of the debate on the adjournment motion moved by the Joint Opposition on the resolution on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

Opposition Leader R Sampanthan stated that late Wickramanayake was not a person who used communalism or chauvinism for political gain.  He was addressing the House on the Condolence Vote on late Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka.

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has advised Parliamentarians not to tarnish the image of the August body, the Parliament by expressing unhealthy and unacceptable language and thereby violating the Standing Orders. The healthy traditions of Parliament must be preserved.