Clarification by Minister of State for Home Affairs

7.42 pm

The Minister of State for Home Affairs (Assoc Prof Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim): Thank you for allowing me to make a clarification.

With regard to my reply, to the supplementary question asked by Mr Dennis Tan during the Oral reply for Parliamentary Question No 1 at the Sitting of 24 February 2023, I mentioned that there will be a Coroner's inquiry and that it will be public information. [Please refer to "Inquiry into Death of SCDF NSF Firefighter in December 2022", Official Report, 24 February 2023, Vol 95, Issue 86, Oral Answers to Questions section.]

I should clarify that the State Coroner may decide to hold a Coroner's inquiry, as I had previously shared in January. It will be held in open Court and it will be public information, unless the Coroner has sufficient reason not to do so.

Mdm Deputy Speaker: Leader.