Two things stood out in parliament today:
1. WP NCMP Leon Perera registered a strong objection that a PAP SMOS Health Minister Chee Hong Tat insinuated he spoke abt allowing e-cigarette for existing smokers as an interim tool while quitting is motivated by his commercial interest for the cigarette orvrelated firms!!
Comments by neutral observers r: it was a cheap shot by SMOS Chee as it was proposed as an interim step for smokers' quitting process! How did he even linked that n cast aspersions on Mr Perera's motivation!!
Could the Speaker of Parliament censure SMOS Chee for being disrespectful to a fellow Singapore MP?
Or I m expecting too much for fair play in our parliament?
2. "SINGAPORE: Despite working as a team, public transport operators and regulators can keep up checks and balances, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said in Parliament on Tuesday (Nov 7) in response to questions by opposition leader Low Thia Khiang.
1. WP NCMP Leon Perera registered a strong objection that a PAP SMOS Health Minister Chee Hong Tat insinuated he spoke abt allowing e-cigarette for existing smokers as an interim tool while quitting is motivated by his commercial interest for the cigarette orvrelated firms!!
Comments by neutral observers r: it was a cheap shot by SMOS Chee as it was proposed as an interim step for smokers' quitting process! How did he even linked that n cast aspersions on Mr Perera's motivation!!
Could the Speaker of Parliament censure SMOS Chee for being disrespectful to a fellow Singapore MP?
Or I m expecting too much for fair play in our parliament?
2. "SINGAPORE: Despite working as a team, public transport operators and regulators can keep up checks and balances, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said in Parliament on Tuesday (Nov 7) in response to questions by opposition leader Low Thia Khiang.
Mr Low asked Mr Khaw how the Land Transport Authority (LTA), SMRT and the Ministry of Transport can avoid blurring the boundaries when they work as a team.
"How does the minister ensure each of them can still play their functional role well, when they work as a team and become good friends?” said Mr Low, the last MP to speak in response to Mr Khaw’s ministerial statement on lapses that led to an MRT tunnel being flooded on Oct 7.
"What about instituting a structural system of checks that should be embedded to ensure efficiency, honesty and integrity?" he added.
To this, Mr Khaw said the LTA is “very clear” about its roles as regulator, developer and asset owner, which he detailed in a ministerial statement delivered earlier. Mr Khaw also referred to a fourth and unspoken role for the authority - to cultivate a relationship between LTA and the rail operators "founded on trust and constructive collaboration"."
This is the BIG FAT PINK ELEPHANT in the parliament that the authorities don't want to, or refuse to, acknowledge!!
Who is governing who? How close should the relational build on trust n constructive collaboration, an UNSPOKEN 4th role!!, for it to be still effective as a check-n-balance mechanism?
What Minister Khaw said is still the same old refusal to admit that there r structural flaws in the current set up of LTA supervising SMRT!!
Just business as usual of: own self check own self n justify whatever own self r doing must be right!
Blessed the train system!!
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