Best moments of the 13th Parliament of Singapore

[Music] previously on why is art important in the future of singapore art is part of our daily lives art is integral to our society art can contribute to the resilience so why are we not talking about art and innovation why are we not talking about art anti-creative industry where is art water is existential it has been sold in 1965 it has been sold yesterday it is sold today and you will be sold tomorrow how many more desalination plants and how many more new water plants we must build in order for water to never be a weapon pointing at our head does he forgotten that the former prime minister in mr esm sue the workers party candidate thing young honduran general election 1997 for just making a police report by using family does not this also show that blood is thicker than water one sibling cannot sue after all we are brothers and sisters but political opponents and critics sue until your plans drop i'll be very i'll be very brave the response by lucha young is not unexpected i expected that this is what they call political sophistry and as for italian hong we want to help the disadvantage in society more and yet after all these features that i've listened carefully in this chamber the worker party thinks that finding the ways to fund all these programs is a distraction they agree with the programs but talking about how to fund these programs is a distraction i find it baffling you want a clarification yes yes because he's referring to my speech i say is the distraction i thought the budget the most important part of this budget is anchoring singapore i'm not saying that revenue is not important but gst is not part of the budget measure at this budget right mr deputy speaker i have in hand what mr lota kang said in cos 2017 in the card to mof i quote i hope he meaning the minister for finance can be upfront with singaporeans now so that they are not blindsided by the government as they were with a sudden 30 30 percent increase in water prices you can't have the cake and eat it yes speaker i stand i say what i say i'm not asking you to hide the increase or intention intended increase in gst i'm not asking the government to do that what i'm all saying is that you can by all means announce it well we well before you want to increase it's good to increase before uh endorse beforehand but the question is whether or not you need to announce it together this budget that's another issue speaker anyway i've asked the last election and i think the dpm talmud promised it would be we have enough the you know money to spend will not increase that's true so next election is 2020 or 2021 so you're going to increase after the next election good to announce it now then we can debate at the rally public revenue i did not accuse the government of being untruthful as alleged and neither had i intended to accuse the government of dishonesty i do not accept the over-characterization the pap mps have put on my words and intentions based on their own interpretation born out of overactive imaginations and over sensitivity by so refusing her conduct falls short of the standard of integrity and honour expected of all members i must therefore put the honorable member on notice and the rest of the house too that we should repeat such dishonorable conduct and abuse parliamentary privilege i refer the matter to the committee of privileges and then of course we remember senior minister of state chi hong kong whose sport market oh sorry he who raised the bar by speaking in tamil not once but twice so the arms race has begun this is a multilingual parliament i can also speak in tamil [Music] at times things seem to be rather ambiguous such as whether two-thirds plus one-third is greater than one we must try for two third plus one third not just equal to one but greater than one [Music] or disagreement for example having a division for the budget statement argue fight by all means but within limits and in a responsible manner hey you know rules it's a player of a minute to wrap up in our case the proposed section 154a of the evidence act provides that the minister may make rules to restrict the questions that may be asked of the alleged victim of cross-examination i support these objectives however i wish to seek some clarification given that the evidence act already contains restrictions on certain kinds of questions what is the rationale of having these restrictions dealt with in secondary legislation instead of primary legislation as i pointed out even the uk model wrap up please yes yes yes sir just right so just this last question um you don't have time for last question yes i think i'll uh thank you very much i'll take your cue i have always found it perplexing that the police are caught in to handle snakes i urge the abs to train a group of experts who can handle wildlife and attending to residents who need help i give you an example recently a resident saw a snake in the drain right in front of her unit which is on the ground floor it is good to have harmonious co-assistance with animals but we need to strike a balance we need to consider the safety of our residents first i would like to take this opportunity to highlight the problem that some cat feeders caused to our community in nissan south zone a many residents complaining about fighting of big big reds and i went down at night to take a look true enough i can see many rats dancing about running about and i activated nea ava and town council we formed a red task force there were several high-rise littering of sanitary pets for many years and until today it is still not soft and why because nea deployed cctv is only for few days and the problem persists actually this one if you have targeted an ambition to catch the culprit i'm sure we'll be able to catch it otherwise looks like this problem will only disappear when the little bug menopause do you believe i ask you for the final time religion and politics should be kept separate just asking you do you believe that religion should be kept separate from politics i think i'm asking you would you be prepared to answer honestly do you believe religion should be kept separate from politics mr mana i'm entitled to ask you based on that of further clarification do you believe that religion should be kept separate from politics in singapore would you agree that religion should be kept separate from politics in singapore and and my question really is can we expect in future either by way of parliamentary question or by the government on its own accord dividing that into singaporeans and pr's if the government's approach is no we are not going to provide that data can the minister please share that detail with us here because it doesn't it's pointless for us to keep asking for the data if the government is not going to provide it mr deputy speaker sir i don't think we have anything to hide we have just shared the data well if that's the case then for the number the 60 000 pm et jobs local pmit jobs how many were for singaporeans and how many went to prs get you the questions i mean we can get you the numbers but let me say this what is the point behind the questions how we transmit and therefore two things you need to do which is you need to wash your hands with soap and not touch your face you just touch your face stop playing done perhaps my thoughts would be best expressed by quoting the lyrics from the liverpool fc song hold your head up high don't be afraid of the dark because at the end of the storm there's a golden sky mr speaker sir i won't sing i can't and i don't want thank you very much and and i don't want to empty this house but i have this to say to dpm walk on walk on with hope in your heart and you will never walk alone you will never walk alone mr speaker words are not sufficient to express our appreciation for all of those who are excuse me

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Length: 12min 47sec (767 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 24 2020