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It is important to monitor how our members of parliament are discharging their duties in the legislature. One good way is to cast one’s eye on the Hansard from time to time to check the cogency and quality of the questions they ask, if they are backbenchers. If they are office-holders, we’d be interested in the quality of their replies.
The reply by Gan Kim Yong contains quite a lot of fluff. Perhaps he needed to bury within loads of positive statements (“stepped up our efforts”, “enhance its targeted, multi-pronged strategies”) the unflattering fact that smoking prevalence has been rising, from 12.6% in 2004 to 14.3 % in 2010.
- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...cco-control-and-foreign-student-scholarships/
The reply by Gan Kim Yong contains quite a lot of fluff. Perhaps he needed to bury within loads of positive statements (“stepped up our efforts”, “enhance its targeted, multi-pronged strategies”) the unflattering fact that smoking prevalence has been rising, from 12.6% in 2004 to 14.3 % in 2010.
- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...cco-control-and-foreign-student-scholarships/
