NICOLL HIGHWAY WORKSITE COLLAPSE (National awards/medals for the late Mr Heng Yeow Pheow and rescue workers)

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NICOLL HIGHWAY WORKSITE COLLAPSE:

(National awards/medals for the late Mr Heng Yeow Pheow and rescue workers): 9.

Ms Irene Ng Phek Hoong asked the Prime Minister if he will give national awards or medals (a) to honour the valour of the late Mr Heng Yeow Pheow for putting the lives of his workers before his own during the Nicoll Highway worksite collapse; and (b) to recognise the courage of rescue workers who risked their lives to retrieve the bodies trapped in the rubble after the cave-in.

The Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Wong Kan Seng): Sir, I would like to make a short ministerial statement on this afterwards.

Mr Speaker: All right.