Revised Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Bill

Order for Second Reading read.

3.17 pm

The Second Minister for Finance (Ms Indranee Rajah): Mr Speaker, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a second time."

The Revised Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Bill will have its three readings done in a single Parliament Sitting today. We adopt this approach because of the urgency of implementing the additional support measures announced in the Deputy Prime Minister's Ministerial Statement on 6 April 2020. All of us will be affected by the necessary heightened safe distancing measures – some more than others. The enhanced support measures hence need to reach our workers, enterprises and households as fast as possible.

In order to read the Bill three times in a single Parliamentary Sitting, I have sought and obtained the President's certification that the urgency exists for this Bill, under Standing Order 86 of the Standing Orders of the Parliament of Singapore.

This Bill provides for the Estimates as approved in the Committee of Supply earlier today. Mr Speaker, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read a Second time.

Bill accordingly read a Third time and passed.