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[/URL][h=2]Parliamentary Questions for 7 July 2014 Sitting[/h]
July 7, 2014 at 10:45am
Workers' Party MPs and NCMPs have tabled several questions for Monday's sitting on a range of issues, including the new bus contracting model and the recent security breach of SingPass accounts. Watch this space for updates as the MPs will also speak on the MediShield Life Review Committee report and Little India riot Committee of Inquiry report.
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER*
*4. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Transport under the new Government contracting model for public buses (a) how does the Government plan to buy back the public bus infrastructure and operating assets currently owned by the two public transport operators (PTOs); (b) how will the value of these assets be assessed;(c) how will the Government ensure that the PTOs do not profit from the disposal of these assets; and (d) how will the Government fund these asset purchases.
*5. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Transport (a) whether the Government expects to make an operating loss over the long term under the new Government contracting model for public buses; and (b) approximately how much operating subsidies the Government expects to inject into the public bus system each year.
*6. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Transport (a) whether the Government has any plans to extend the new public bus contracting model to the MRT system; and (b) whether the Government is satisfied with the current MRT ownership and operating model.
*10. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Minister for Communications and Information in respect of the recent security breach of SingPass accounts (a) what additional interim and permanent measures are being put in place to ensure that the operator carries out its operational roles, particularly in the monitoring,investigation and flagging of suspicious activities on the platform; (b) what is the latest update on the Ministry's investigations into the breaches,including when the full findings will be released; and (c) whether efforts have been made to find out whether the security breach is larger than the 1,560 accounts reported.
*17. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Development since 2001 (a) what percentage of the Child Development Co-Savings Scheme budget allocated for babies born into households of one-room to three-room flats, four-room flats, five-room and executive flats, and private property respectively, have been disbursed; (b) what percentage of children in each of these household types have received the full co-matching amount; and (c) what are the reasons for the differences in take-up rates amongst these groups, if any.
*23. Mr Pritam Singh: To ask the Prime Minister in light of the discovery of unused ballot boxes that are not disposed of in a proper manner during the last presidential election(a) whether the Elections Department has studied the prospect of treating all ballot boxes, used or unused, as controlled items until the point of destruction in all future elections; and (b) what changes has theElections Department introduced to its processes to prevent the occurrence of a similar incident in future.
*27. Mr Yee Jenn Jong: To ask the Minister for Trade and Industry whether the Ministry will provide a national data bank on commercial rentals including effective rents with variable components and, if so, when.
QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
2. Mr Pritam Singh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs if he can provide (i) the racial breakdown (Chinese, Malay,Indian, and Others), in percentages, of full-time national servicemen and regulars who are currently serving in the Singapore Police Force (SPF) andSingapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) respectively; and (ii) the racial breakdown (Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Others), in percentages, of NSmen in SPF and SCDF respectively.
3. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs of the full-time national servicemen and regulars currently serving in the Singapore Police Force and Singapore Civil Defence Force (a)what is the breakdown in percentages of those who are (i) senior officers (ii)junior officers (iii) non-commissioned officers, respectively; and (b) for each group, what is the racial breakdown in percentages for (i) Chinese (ii) Malay(iii) Indian (iv) Others, respectively.
4. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs of the NSmen currently serving in the Singapore Police Force and Singapore Civil Defence Force (a) what is the breakdown in percentages of those who are (i) senior officers (ii) junior officers (iii) non-commissioned officers respectively;and (b) for each group, what is the racial breakdown in percentages for (i) Chinese (ii)Malay (iii) Indian (iv) Others respectively.
9. Mr Pritam Singh: To ask the Minister for Defence if he can provide (i) the racial breakdown (Chinese, Malay, Indian,and Others), in percentages,of full-time national servicemen and regulars who are currently serving in the Air Force, Navy and Army respectively; and (ii) the racial breakdown (Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Others), in percentages, of NSmen in the AirForce, Navy and Army respectively.
10. Mr Pritam Singh: To ask the Minister for Defence if he can provide (i) the racial breakdown (Chinese, Malay, Indian,and Others), in percentages, of full-time national servicemen and regulars who are currently trained in the artillery, signals and armour vocations of the Army respectively; and (ii) the racial breakdown (Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Others), in percentages,of NSmen in the aforesaid vocations.
11. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Minister for Defence of the full-time national servicemen and regulars currently serving in the AirForce, Navy and Army (a) what is the breakdown in percentages of those who are (i) commissioned officers (ii) warrant officers (iii) specialists (iv)enlistees, respectively;and (b) for each group, what is the racial breakdown in percentages for (i) Chinese (ii)Malay (iii) Indian (iv) Others, respectively.
12. Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Minister for Defence of the NSmen currently serving in the Air Force, Navy and Army (a) what is the breakdown in percentages of those who are (i) commissioned officers (ii) warrant officers (iii) specialists (iv) enlistees, respectively; and (b) foreach group, what is the racial breakdown in percentages for (i) Chinese (ii)Malay (iii) Indian (iv) Others, respectively.
18. Mr Chen Show Mao: To ask the Minister for Health (a) how many patients have benefited from the Interim Caregiver Service to-date (b)how many people are currently on the waitlist and how long is the waitlist; (c)how many instances have there been where patients who qualify for the service have turned down the service and why; and (d) how many caregivers will there be when the service is made available this year to all restructured hospitals and community hospitals and how many patients can this number of caregivers support.
19. Mr Chen Show Mao: To ask the Minister for Health (a) how many patients have made claims from Medisave for overseas elective treatments each year since such use was approved; (b) how much has been claimed per year since such use was approved; (c) what is the breakdown of the treatments that claims have been made for; and (d) in cases where the treatments required hospitalisation, how many days of hospital stay per year do the claims represent.
20. Mr Chen Show Mao: To ask the Minister for Health (a) what dollar amounts in pre-employment grants (PEG) have been awarded to medical and dental students since the inception of the scheme; (b) how many medical and dental students respectively received offers of PEG; and (c)how many accepted such offers to work in Singapore.
23. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Transport (a) whether there is apportionment of costs between SMRT and LTA for the$900 million rail asset renewal plan announced by SMRT in 2012; (b) if so, what is the apportionment of the costs between SMRT and LTA and the basis for the apportionment; and (c) how will the asset renewal plan be affected by the Rail Financing Model proposal submitted by SMRT.
24. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Transport what are the details of theRail Financing Model proposal submitted by SMRT.
26. Ms Lee Li Lian: To ask the Minister for Education what is the median salary of teachers who are graduates and diploma holders respectively at (i) MOE kindergartens and (ii) primary schools.
27. Ms Lee Li Lian: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Development in respect of Singaporean children eligible for the Child Development Account (CDA) as of 31 December 2013 (a) what is the percentage of (i)children who have not opened an account; (ii) first-born and second-born children whose parents have not saved up to the maximum of $6,000 in their accounts; (iii) children with maximum CDA savings whose savings are used up in the first six years; and (b) what is the total amount of CDA funds used for education, healthcare and others respectively.
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