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COS 2012 Debates: MOE – Foreign Scholarships
by NCMP Yee Jenn Jong Our government awards some 1070 undergraduate scholarships each year to foreign students, with an annual value of up to $25,000 dollars each. With up to 4 cohorts of students at...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOE – Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang 阿裕尼集选区国会议员－刘程强 主席先生， 前总理李光耀去年底捐出1千万元设立“李光耀双语基金”，政府也承诺以一元对一元的方式资助，使基金最终达到一亿元。 双语基金怎么应用，在教育部作出具体宣布之前，我想提出以下两点： 第一、认清双语基金设立的核心目标，避免模糊焦点。...
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COS 2012 Debates: MCYS – Pre-school support for low income families
by NCMP Yee Jenn Jong A good early start to education is important to a child’s development. It is especially important for the lower income families to help the child be ready for primary schools....
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COS 2012 Debates: MCYS – Mosque Management
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap Chairman Sir, In Malay 1. Skim Pengerusi Eksekutif Masjid atau Mosques Executive Chairman (MEC) telah dilaksanakan oleh MUIS pada tahun 1999 dengan...
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COS 2012 Debates: MCYS – School Pocket Money Fund
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap Chairman Sir, 1. Sir, the SPH’s School Pocket Money Fund has done good work providing children from low-income families with pocket money to attend...
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COS 2012 Debates: MCYS – VWO Funding KPIs
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap Chairman Sir, 1. Family Service Centres have to fulfil specific KPIs set by the National Council of Social Services (NCSS) in order to receive...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOE – Edusave for full-time Madrasahs
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap Chairman Sir, In Malay 1. Dalam menjawab soalan parlimen agar Skim Edusave dilanjutkan kepada pelajar di sekolah privet baru-baru ini, Menteri...
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COS 2012 Debates: MCYS – VWO Workload and Social Worker Caseload
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap Chairman Sir, 1. It is good that the Ministry is finally addressing the problem of social worker caseload. I sincerely support the Acting Minister in...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOT – Residents’ Parking in Private Estates
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim It is quite common in private estates for have households with multiple cars, especially where adult children continue to live with their parents. In certain housing...
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COS 2012 Debates: MCYS – Divorce Court Orders Affecting Children
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim This cut is about whether some of our most vulnerable children – those caught up in acrimonious divorces – are being alienated from their parents due to inadequate...
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COS 2012 Debates: MHA – Security Manpower
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim I will touch on the police, auxiliary police and private security industry in turn. First, the police. In 2008, the Ministry embarked on a Human Factors study which...
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COS 2012 Debates: MICA – Angel Funding for the Arts
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Chen Show Mao Sir, The Arts make up the stock of our nation’s cultural capital, which enables us to build a stronger sense of national identity, rootedness and social cohesion...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOF – Project Finance Company (PFC)
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Chen Show Mao Sir, Based on the recommendations of the Economic Strategies Committee (ESC) in 2010, Budget 2012 announced that Temasek has put together a consortium of...
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COS 2012 Debates: PMO – Permanent Residents / Long Term Visit Pass
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap Chairman Sir, 1. In a recent reply to a question on whether the Ministry would grant permanent residence more easily to the foreign spouses of...
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COS 2012 Debates: MND – Debarment Period for Divorcees
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap Chairman Sir, 1. The number of divorces and annulments has been inching up since 2005. In 2010 alone, there were over 7,000 divorces recorded under...
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COS 2012 Debates: MND – Growing alternative city centres
by NCMP Gerald Giam Mr Chairman, URA’s Master Plan 2008 envisioned more regional commercial centres being developed outside the city centre to offer alternatives for businesses and provide jobs closer...
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COS 2012 Debates: MND – Lift Upgrading Programme
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim LUP is a government programme where the bulk of the cost is supposed to be borne by the government, with the balance co-shared between residents and Town Councils,...
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COS 2012 Debates: MND – Car parking for HDB residents
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim In mature HDB estates where there are few multi-storey car parks, families may be asked to park their car some distance away from their block, particularly their...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOM – Training and Low wage workers
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim Low wage workers do not earn enough to meet Singapore’s cost of living. The government recognizes this by introducing the Workfare Income Supplement and encouraging...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOM – Foreign Worker Industry Segmentation
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Chen Show Mao Sir, The further tightening to reduce our economy’s dependence on foreign workers is a necessary step in the right direction. However, I would like to ask the...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOM – Foreign Manpower Dependency Ratio Ceilings
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang Chairman Sir, 1. Currently, the Dependency Ratio Ceilings (DRCs) for foreign manpower is based on broad industry sectors. It would be helpful to further...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOM – Elderly Workers, Retirees and Homemakers
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang Chairman Sir, 1. Weaning the economy off foreign labour requires us to look inwards to our existing pool of elderly workers, retirees and homemakers. We share...
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COS 2012 Debates: MINDEF – National Service Deferment for Athletes
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh I understand MINDEF is reviewing the NS leave system for athletes, and more specifically, the SAF Sportsmen Scheme. It is noteworthy that when the national...
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COS 2012 Debates: MINDEF – National Service and Immigration Policy
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh There is a rather pejorative phrase that has become commonplace in Singapore since the government open the door to new immigrants – It is short and provocative,...
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COS 2012 Debates: MINDEF – Strategic Outlook for the Medium Term
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh Mr Chairman, in view of our aging population and additional pressure to spend on social security in the years to come, there is a growing perception that the...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOH – Managing hospital resource constraints
by NCMP Gerald Giam Mr Chairman, For some time now, our government restructured hospitals have been facing a bed crunch, as several Members before me have mentioned. With the current high bed...
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COS 2012 Debates: PMO – Scholarships for Minority Students
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh During the last general elections, I raised the issue of the relatively low number of PSC scholarships awarded to minorities relative to their numbers in the...
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COS 2012 Debates: PMO – Population Policy
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh Sir, there remain concerns among Singaporeans that Singapore is too crowded and cannot support a larger population without significantly compromising our standard...
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COS 2012 Debates: PMO – Ombudsman
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh During his Presidential campaign last year, President Tony Tan noted that the ombudsman was an institution that ought to be looked into. The office of the...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOH – National Electronic Health Record System
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang Chairman Sir, 1. The objective of having a National Electronic Health Record system is to enable each person to have only one medical record that is accessible...
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COS 2012 Debates: MEWR – Midges at Bedok Reservoir
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang Chairman Sir, 1. I believe the Minister is well aware that residents living near Bedok Reservoir have been plagued by midgets again recently. This swarm of...
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COS 2012 Debates: MFA – Renewed US emphasis in Asia
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh Mr Chairman, I refer to the US Department of Defence announcement of a new strategic framework in early January this year, that envisions a US military with...
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COS 2012 Debates: MEWR – Lapse of 2011 Water Agreement with Malaysia
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh According to the PUB, Singapore’s water supply comes from four taps – local catchment, desalination, NEWater and raw water from Malaysia. There has been some...
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COS 2012 Debates: MEWR – Management of Hawker Centres
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim It seems to me that managing cleanliness in a hawker centre can be a complex matter, because there are different groups in charge of different pieces of the pie....
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COS 2012 Debates: MinLaw – IPTO Caseload and Service Levels
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim Several of my constituents are undischarged bankrupts. They wish to move their cases along but tell me of the frustration they face in dealing with the Insolvency...
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COS 2012 Debates: MinLaw – Internet Regulation
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh I refer to the Minister’s comments made in early January at the launch of “The Mortal Enemy”, the winning trailer for The Originals Get Reel Contest organised by...
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COS 2012 Debates: MinLaw – Prosecutorial Discretion
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Pritam Singh I refer to the decision of the Court of Appeal in Ramalingam Ravinthran v Attorney-General [2012] SGCA 2 with specific reference to the nature and width of...
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COS 2012 Debates: MEWR – Charges On Water Consumption
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang Chairman Sir, 1. All of us can appreciate the importance of water conservation, especially in a place like Singapore. However, I am of the view that the...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOH – Increasing MediShield coverage and benefits
by NCMP Gerald Giam Mr Chairman, MediShield is a government-administered insurance scheme that is meant to help cover the costs of major hospital bills. Unfortunately, some of those who need...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOH – Pricing of Drugs by Public Hospitals
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Sylvia Lim In a Parliamentary answer on 14 February 2012, the Ministry confirmed that public hospitals operate their pharmacies as revenue centres. In other words, public...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOT – Concession fares for disabled and for polytechnic...
by NCMP Yee Jenn Jong There are many requests for more public transport concessions for the disabled and for polytechnic students. On 21 November last year, Minister Lui Tuck Yew said that the Public...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOT – Vehicle Quota System improvements
by NCMP Gerald Giam Mr Chairman, The Vehicle Quota System (VQS) exists to limit Singapore’s vehicle population growth rate. This is necessary because of Singapore’s limited land area and growing...
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COS 2012 Debates: MinLaw – Recognition of External Degrees
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Chen Show Mao Sir, Background Currently, external law degrees are not recognized for admission to the Singapore Bar. This was based on recommendations in 1993 by the First...
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COS 2012 Debates: MinLaw – Regulation of Moneylenders
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Chen Show Mao Sir, Background When the Moneylenders Act was re-enacted in 2008, its stated objectives were to facilitate moneylending in the modern credit economy, and to...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOH – Integrated Eldercare
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Chen Show Mao Sir, The importance of delivering integrated care to our seniors is well known. This applies not just to integrating the delivery of different kinds of health...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOH – Mental illness
by MP for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang Chairman Sir, 1. Mental illness is a condition that not only affects the individual and family but also the community. 2. I believe that mental illness will...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOE – Integrated Programme
by NCMP Yee Jenn Jong We started the Integrated Programme, or IP in 2004 to allow higher ability secondary students to skip the O levels into the A levels or its equivalent. I wish to propose an...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOE – Gifted Education Programme
by NCMP Yee Jenn Jong Gifted education programme was implemented in 1984. Primary school GEP starts a child at primary 4 in one of 9 designated schools. Students are identified after nation-wide tests...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOE – Special needs in mainstream schools
by NCMP Yee Jenn Jong There are some 13,000 school-going children with special needs. The larger portion or 7,600 are in mainstream schools. Therefore, we must pay attention to this group. MOE has...
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COS 2012 Debates: MOE – Support for preschool industry
by NCMP Yee Jenn Jong I state my interest as a service provider to preschool operators. However I do not run kindergartens which are beneficiaries of my proposals. MOE has earmarked $290 million to be...
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