QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER STOOD OVER TO NEXT AVAILABLE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT

Mr Ngeow Pack Hua: To ask the Minister for Trade and Industry whether he is aware that ventilation in Boon Lay Garden Shopping Centre is very poor and what steps he proposes to take to remedy the situation.

Mr Rohan bin Kamis: To ask the Minister for Trade and Industry what are the plans to enlarge the facilities of Sentosa Island to make it more attractive to both Singaporeans and the tourists.

Mr Ho See Beng: To ask the Minister for National Development whether the Raffles Centre development project will lead to acquisition of schools along Bras Basah Road as well as the playground of St. Joseph's Institution, the grounds of St. Andrew's Cathedral and the Padang in front of City Hall.

Haji Sha'ari bin Tadin: To ask the Minister for National Development if he will request the Public Works Department to construct bus shelters in front of Apartment Block 40, Bedok South Road and Apartment Block 65, New Upper Changi Road.

Haji Sha'ari bin Tadin: To ask the Minister for National Development if he will consider installing traffic lights at the junction of New Upper Changi Road and Bedok South Avenue 1.

Mr Eugene Yap Giau Cheng: To ask the Minister for National Development (a) when he proposes to bring the Sale of Commercial Properties Act, 1979, into operation and to introduce the regulations governing the terms and conditions for the sale of commercial properties; (b) whether he is aware that the Consumers' Association of Singapore (CASE) has been and is still receiving complaints from several purchasers of commercial properties ranging from several years of delay in issuing strata titles to levying fees on transfer from one owner to another and, whilst framing a set of restrictive regulations to stamp out blatant profiteering on the part of some commercial property developers, if he will consider making the regulations retrospective; (c) if he does not wish to consider making the regulations retrospective, if he can oblige the House with the rationale behind that thinking; and (d) if the regulations cannot be retrospective, if he will consider measures to rectify the present inequitable situation for those who are already affected and who have been unfortunately excluded from the Act.

Haji Rahmat bin Kenap: To ask the Minister for Social Affairs whether there is sufficient manpower for the ambulances as, when an ambulance attends a call from a flat resident, usually only one attendant goes up to the flat and the sick person is carried down on a canvas sheet instead of on a proper stretcher.

Dr Lau Teik Soon: To ask the Minister for Social Affairs when construction of the Sports Centre at Burghley Drive will commence, when it will be completed and what will be the facilities in the Sports Centre.

Haji Rahmat bin Kenap: To ask the Minister for National Development whether the Housing and Development Board will consider the early resettlement of those illiterate residents, who have been living for many years in a house now affected by redevelopment but whose addresses on their identity cards remain unchanged or have been changed recently although the street name had long ago been changed, as there has been a long delay in dealing with such cases.

Mr Ho Kah Leong: To ask the Minister for National Development if the Public Works Department will erect proper signs to warn motorists of pedestrian zebra crossings ahead.

Dr Koh Lip Lin: To ask the Minister for National Development (a) if the development plan for Nee Soon New Town has been completed; (b) what is the number of projected housing units in Nee Soon New Town and when these units will be completed; and (c) how many units of flats will be built in Nee Soon New Town in the next three years.

Dr Lau Teik Soon: To ask the Minister for National Development whether he will consider installing a traffic light system at the junction of Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 and Avenue 8.

Encik Sidek bin Saniff: To ask the Minister for National Development if he will consider allowing the conversion of three instead of two units of void deck space for use as community halls.

The following Question has been withdrawn:

Haji Rahmat bin Kenap: To ask the Minister for National Development whether farmers affected by redevelopment can be offered hawker stalls in lieu of compensation for loss of their farms if they are willing to accept them and whether such cases will be given priority. Annex A (Cols. 375 - 376)