Wayang Party minus Teochew Low as LEEder with GE looming finally starts to ask hard questions in ParLEEment. Too little, too late?

[Wayne Piew]

Workers’ Party NMP Leon Perera plans to take ministers to task with hard questions about recent troubles
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/worl...-seminyak-boutique/ar-BBTgXQN?ocid=spartanntp
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/worl...ty-in-mh17-downing/ar-BBTjqif?ocid=spartanntp

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Parliament sits again next Monday, and Leon Perera is not intending to sit quietly. According to a post on his Facebook page yesterday, the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NMP) under the Workers’ Party banner plans to tackle the concerning issues that have plagued Singapore over the last couple of weeks.
These include the tragic death of actor and national serviceman Aloysius Pang, the massive leak of the HIV registry and the power outage that hit parts of Singapore for over 11 hours last month.



The Minister for Defence
Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen will have to respond to Perera’s queries over the “common causative factors” in the spate of deaths within the national service, and whether there’ll be any systemic changes undertaken to address the causes of the deaths.
Aloysius Pang’s death on Jan 23 would be the latest case in a series of training fatalities in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in the last 18 months. Pang, 28, died after sustaining serious injuries in the midst of servicing a mobile howitzer during overseas reservist training in New Zealand. Liu Kai, 22, was killed last November after an armored vehicle reversed onto the Land Rover he was in. Muhammad Sadikin Bin Hasban, 33, succumbed to his injuries when a falling tree branch hit him while supervising maintenance work at a helicopter evacuation site. Dave Lee, 19, succumbed to heat stroke in hospital last April following an 8km march.
The Minister for Health
Perera will also be asking Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong for more detailed about how the country’s medical database is secured.
His question is related to the massive leak that made public the confidential information — including names, contact details, addresses, and medical data — of 14,200 patients in Singapore with HIV.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed on Jan 28 that the records of 5,400 Singaporeans and Permanent Residents, as well as 8,800 foreigners with HIV, were leaked online by a deported American man who managed to get his hands on the information. The man’s boyfriend is a local doctor had access to the HIV registry during his time as MOH’s National Public Health Unit from March 2012 to May 2013.
The Minister for Trade and Industry
Certain parts of Singapore were hit by a power outage on Jan 26 for about 11-and-a-half hours, disrupting electricity supply in places including Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Sin Ming, and Thomson. The blackout affected traffic lights and lifts in residential areas, leaving some trapped inside elevators.
Perera wants to know from Chan Chun Sing, the Minister for Trade and Industry, the extent of the power outage and how the government is taking steps to minimize such failures in the future.
The Minister for Environment and Water Resources
Minister for Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli will be asked to elaborate on the food safety and hygiene checks conducted over the past five years.
A spate of high-profile mass food poisoning incidents have been occurring since last year — 2018 alone saw seven cases. Some of the really concerning ones include the Spize River Valley case that left over 80 people poisoned and one dead. The main ballroom of Mandarin Orchard was forced to close after 175 people fell ill from eating meals served at the hotel’s Grand Ballroom.
Just last Friday, 14 kindergarten children fell ill after eating catered food at a Toa Payoh East PCF Sparkletots branch.

 

[Asterix]

What about Chen Show Mao?

 

[glockman]

Workers’ Party NMP Leon Perera plans to take ministers to task with hard questions about recent troubles
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/worl...-seminyak-boutique/ar-BBTgXQN?ocid=spartanntp
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/worl...ty-in-mh17-downing/ar-BBTjqif?ocid=spartanntp

Video screengrab
Parliament sits again next Monday, and Leon Perera is not intending to sit quietly. According to a post on his Facebook page yesterday, the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NMP) under the Workers’ Party banner plans to tackle the concerning issues that have plagued Singapore over the last couple of weeks.
These include the tragic death of actor and national serviceman Aloysius Pang, the massive leak of the HIV registry and the power outage that hit parts of Singapore for over 11 hours last month.



The Minister for Defence
Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen will have to respond to Perera’s queries over the “common causative factors” in the spate of deaths within the national service, and whether there’ll be any systemic changes undertaken to address the causes of the deaths.
Aloysius Pang’s death on Jan 23 would be the latest case in a series of training fatalities in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in the last 18 months. Pang, 28, died after sustaining serious injuries in the midst of servicing a mobile howitzer during overseas reservist training in New Zealand. Liu Kai, 22, was killed last November after an armored vehicle reversed onto the Land Rover he was in. Muhammad Sadikin Bin Hasban, 33, succumbed to his injuries when a falling tree branch hit him while supervising maintenance work at a helicopter evacuation site. Dave Lee, 19, succumbed to heat stroke in hospital last April following an 8km march.
The Minister for Health
Perera will also be asking Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong for more detailed about how the country’s medical database is secured.
His question is related to the massive leak that made public the confidential information — including names, contact details, addresses, and medical data — of 14,200 patients in Singapore with HIV.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed on Jan 28 that the records of 5,400 Singaporeans and Permanent Residents, as well as 8,800 foreigners with HIV, were leaked online by a deported American man who managed to get his hands on the information. The man’s boyfriend is a local doctor had access to the HIV registry during his time as MOH’s National Public Health Unit from March 2012 to May 2013.
The Minister for Trade and Industry
Certain parts of Singapore were hit by a power outage on Jan 26 for about 11-and-a-half hours, disrupting electricity supply in places including Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, Sin Ming, and Thomson. The blackout affected traffic lights and lifts in residential areas, leaving some trapped inside elevators.
Perera wants to know from Chan Chun Sing, the Minister for Trade and Industry, the extent of the power outage and how the government is taking steps to minimize such failures in the future.
The Minister for Environment and Water Resources
Minister for Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli will be asked to elaborate on the food safety and hygiene checks conducted over the past five years.
A spate of high-profile mass food poisoning incidents have been occurring since last year — 2018 alone saw seven cases. Some of the really concerning ones include the Spize River Valley case that left over 80 people poisoned and one dead. The main ballroom of Mandarin Orchard was forced to close after 175 people fell ill from eating meals served at the hotel’s Grand Ballroom.
Just last Friday, 14 kindergarten children fell ill after eating catered food at a Toa Payoh East PCF Sparkletots branch.

No questions for the PM? Why he appointed imbeciles to head ministries?

 

[glockman]

What about Chen Show Mao?

Chen who?

 

[sweetiepie]

No questions for the PM? Why he appointed imbeciles to head ministries?

KNN why is he disclosing the exam paper and will get a model answer KNN should just ask a unprepared question like above KNN all these can easily lead to show it is a WAYANG SHOW KNN

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN there are certain very important hard question to ask but strangely no one ever asked KNN e.g why the medisave cannot be used for glaucoma treatment KNN is it only when going to die like cancer then can use KNN good gauge is to use boss sam as a tester if he can't answer then likely those jlb ministers can't answer as well KNN isn't this is what oppie voted in for ? KNN

 

[RogerK]

What about Chen Show Mao?

Chen Show Mao Reveals He Asked PM A Question 3 Times Before Speaker Halimah Allowed It

https://mustsharenews.com/chen-show-mao-halimah/

 

[RogerK]

KNN why is he disclosing the exam paper and will get a model answer KNN should just ask a unprepared question like above KNN all these can easily lead to show it is a WAYANG SHOW KNN

Please try understand the procedure.

Even with disclosing the exam paper, also may not be able to get to ask. See my post above.

Once the question is allowed, then follow up question beyond disclosing the exam paper may be permitted. Only then we can assess how sharp the opposition is. Then again, remember that fool and that little police man demanding for apologies?

 

[sweetiepie]

Please try understand the procedure.

Even with disclosing the exam paper, also may not be able to get to ask. See my post above.

Once the question is allowed, then follow up question beyond disclosing the exam paper may be permitted. Only then we can assess how sharp the opposition is. Then again, remember that fool and that little police man demanding for apologies?

 

[JohnTan]

Oppies will have to answer even harder questions asked by Davinder Singh in court. The key oppies of WP and their cronies are very likely to go to jail and be made to pay back millions of dollars.

Haven't remove the plank of wood in their own eye, but want to find fault with the righteous PAP?

 

[mojito]

Chen Show Mao Reveals He Asked PM A Question 3 Times Before Speaker Halimah Allowed It

https://mustsharenews.com/chen-show-mao-halimah/

Depend which version you believe. TOC claim he probably only submitted a written question because whole day he was there at the sitting he never hear! Correct lah wp hard to ask question in Parliament but cannot believe everything wp tell you.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/20...e-use-of-parliament-to-defend-his-reputation/

 

[RogerK]

Depend which version you believe. TOC claim he probably only submitted a written question because whole day he was there at the sitting he never hear! Correct lah wp hard to ask question in Parliament but cannot believe everything wp tell you.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/20...e-use-of-parliament-to-defend-his-reputation/

Read your article again please.
Terry Xu the writer of that article could not be more clear than Chen who posted the Q&A he has had on his facebook.

Let us not discuss who is right or wrong and get distracted from the main issue.

The main issue is that opposition MP questions were blocked.

Why Parliament staff have to be gatekeepers of questions from MPs?

Extract from the article of your link-
"Back when Ms Lina Chiam was serving as a Non-constituency Member of Parliament, TOC was informed that she has more than once had her questions rejected or edited due to the insistence of the Parliament clerks, not the Speaker when she tried to file questions for the parliamentary sittings.

Mr Chen's post should raise questions about the impartiality of the Parliament staff and also the opaque manner in which Parliament staff could choose to allow the MPs to file their questions. While this is surely extended to both MPs from the Workers' Party and the People's Action Party but who are the Parliament staff to determine if the questions are proper?

If the questions do violate the parliament's standing order, the MPs would surely be taken to task for the matter.

Unless the Parliament staff could be penalised for allowing the questions to pass through, why should elected MPs be deterred from filing questions that they feel ought to be answered?"

 

[mojito]

Read your article again please.
Terry Xu the writer of that article could not be more clear than Chen who posted the Q&A he has had on his facebook.

Let us not discuss who is right or wrong and get distracted from the main issue.

The main issue is that opposition MP questions were blocked.

Why Parliament staff have to be gatekeepers of questions from MPs?

Extract from the article of your link-
"Back when Ms Lina Chiam was serving as a Non-constituency Member of Parliament, TOC was informed that she has more than once had her questions rejected or edited due to the insistence of the Parliament clerks, not the Speaker when she tried to file questions for the parliamentary sittings.

Mr Chen's post should raise questions about the impartiality of the Parliament staff and also the opaque manner in which Parliament staff could choose to allow the MPs to file their questions. While this is surely extended to both MPs from the Workers' Party and the People's Action Party but who are the Parliament staff to determine if the questions are proper?

If the questions do violate the parliament's standing order, the MPs would surely be taken to task for the matter.

Unless the Parliament staff could be penalised for allowing the questions to pass through, why should elected MPs be deterred from filing questions that they feel ought to be answered?"

He was blocked from asking in parliament so he submitted written question which he got a written response. Quite different from what Chen's Facebook post where he claimed otherwise. Of course Terry did not calling Chen a liar because we need to focus on the issues. But Chen did bend the truth and to what ends I would suggest he got caught telling a white lie to impress his supporters as we sometimes do as executives.

 

[RogerK]

He was blocked from asking in parliament so he submitted written question which he got a written response. Quite different from what Chen's Facebook post where he claimed otherwise. Of course Terry did not calling Chen a liar because we need to focus on the issues. But Chen did bend the truth and to what ends I would suggest he got caught telling a white lie to impress his supporters as we sometimes do as executives.

Please do not accuse Chen of telling a white lie.

The papigs are expert in telling white lies - Example:

"Public service wages must be fair and realistic to ensure flow of able and committed leaders" TCH and
"Service for the country cannot be measured in dollars and cents." JTeo.

So who is lying?

What did Chen's Facebook post claimed?
He simply showed that he tried asked that CAQ a questiion 3 times
This is his original posting




The rest of what you read by Terry Xu is Terry's version. Do not be confused. Do go to the source if you need clarifications.

 

[mojito]

Please do not accuse Chen of telling a white lie.

The papigs are expert in telling white lies - Example:

"Public service wages must be fair and realistic to ensure flow of able and committed leaders" TCH and
"Service for the country cannot be measured in dollars and cents." JTeo.

So who is lying?

What did Chen's Facebook post claimed?
He simply showed that he tried asked that CAQ a questiion 3 times
This is his original posting




The rest of what you read by Terry Xu is Terry's version. Do not be confused. Do go to the source if you need clarifications.

Hey I think maybe you right. Terry said his competitor misreported not Chen misspoke. I stand corrected. Pinky here for you with you bro!

 

[steffychun]

You think you no constituency loser Dr Chee Bye is any better?

 

[winnipegjets]

Our Ministars are dumbos. They cannot answer questions off the cuff. All these parliamentary questions have to be submitted in advanced. Why? If the ministars know their files, they should be able to answer without preparation.

These ministars deserve only $100 pay.

 

[RogerK]

You think you no constituency loser Dr Chee Bye is any better?

Who is Dr Chee Bye? Is Dr Chee Bye related to you in any way?

 

[RogerK]

Our Ministars are dumbos. They cannot answer questions off the cuff. All these parliamentary questions have to be submitted in advanced. Why? If the ministars know their files, they should be able to answer without preparation.

These ministars deserve only $100 pay.

papigs ministars have lost the art of having a meaningful dialogue. They only bully their way out.

When they could not answer the question, they replied with "What do you think?"

What do I think? Any opposition is much better than any of these pigs in representing the interest of the people.

The reasons why the oppositions are unable to questions as much as they want are because
1. They are overwhelmed in numbers.
2. The civil service is not independent.
3. The procedures set up is stacked against these few opposition members.

Let us all cheer for Leon!!

 

[Robert Half]

An average joe now still has a good hammer to use against their bosses or foreign monkeys who bully them.

Thanks to Mr Low and Teochew nangs are still the most intelligent Singaporeans