Denise Phua Lay Peng/ My Paper’ Fortnightly Column/ 21 Mar 2013
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潘丽萍/ 萍良心说（我报）/ 2013年3月12日
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“Residents of the places where the foreign workers congregate too deserve rest in a quality, peaceful, living environment.”
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“A Budget is only the means to an end – a resource allocation. The end of resource allocation must be to create a Singapore that we all aspire.”
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Denise Phua Lay Peng/ My Paper’ Fortnightly Column/ 26 Feb 2013
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Denise Phua Lay Peng/ My Paper’ Fortnightly Column/ 13 Feb 2013
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“We need to seriously engage other Singaporeans to inject more innovative and more lateral thinking in addressing the hard truths surfaced by the White Paper.”
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Response and clarifications to the Casino Control (Amendment) Bill.
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“We should therefore work towards exiting from the casino industry.“
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Three key areas on the Voluntary Sterilization Bill which should be considered for the amendment.
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“There is a need to formulate a Master Plan to Build a Cohesive and Resilient Singapore Society and to strengthen Singapore’s social safety net.”
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“I, therefore, urge the Ministry to instil a sense of urgency to ensure MediShield includes all Singaporeans, especially those born with special needs.”
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Query on workforce training and investment in Singapore.
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Recommendations on how to further support the vulnerable and displaced.
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“Let us help all our senior Singaporeans to finish well in life.”
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Five recommendations for consideration to further improve the Budget provisions that includes - making Special Employment Credit (SEC) permanent for the elderly and the disabled; expansion of the Special Employment Credit to cover more persons with disabilities (PWDs); strengthening of Singapore’s progressive personal taxation structure; reviewing the defence expenditure as one source to fund the transfers; and establishing an agency to focus and nurture local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
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“The review of political salaries is a work-in-progress. It needs refinement but it is moving in the right direction.”
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“Instead of putting a brake on our economic growth which we need, let us sharpen the current initiatives like Workfare and CET and to include other vulnerable groups like the disabled so that none will be left behind and that everyone has a chance to contribute and benefit from the economic growth.”
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To further enhance the Special Needs Savings Scheme (SNSS), one of the key provisions of the amendments, there are three items for consideration - expansion of scope; encouraging savings; and having effective education of the families.
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“in re-examining Singapore’s policy blueprints in this new age and how these might be changed, I urge Government to exercise the three “Cs” of courage, clarity and conscience.”
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