Parliament sitting, 7 January 2025

113 sections · 14th Parliament · Official Report, 7 January 2025, Vol 95, Issue 148 · Open in the reader

  1. PERMISSION TO MEMBERS TO BE ABSENT
  2. ASSENT TO BILLS PASSED
  3. President’s Concurrence with Resolution on Government Securities and Treasury Bills
  4. Explanation and Impact of Policy Change on Full NRIC Number and Further Measures on Public Education and Protection of Sensitive Identifiable Information
  5. Bus Connectivity Enhancement Programme's Improvements for Residents in Newer Housing Precincts and Key Towns
  6. Effectiveness of Workplace Safety Time-out at Construction Sites
  7. Entry of New Ride-hailing Operations and Impact on Private Hire Car Availability, Ride Fares and COE Prices
  8. Probe in to Manual Manipulation of Delivery Status Codes for SingPost Parcels
  9. Instances of Non-compliance of Telemedicine Guidelines
  10. Risk of Vaping Progressing to Drug Abuse and Classifying Vapes under Section 9 of Misuse of Drugs Act to Prevent Abuse
  11. Ensuring Staffing Adequacy with Additional 40,000 Infant Care and Childcare Places Coming Onstream
  12. Assessing Recent Knife Attacks and Additional Safeguards to Provide Safety Assurance
  13. Examining Australia's Move on Social Media Ban for Those Aged 16 and Below
  14. Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment) Bill
  15. Maintenance of Racial Harmony Bill
  16. Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution (Amendment) Bill
  17. Protection from Scams Bill
  18. Electronic Gazette and Legislation Bill
  19. Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill
  20. Communicable Diseases Agency Bill
  21. Workplace Fairness Bill
  22. Time Limit for Minister's Speech
  23. Workplace Fairness Bill
  24. Workplace Fairness Bill
  25. Adjournment of Debate
  26. Measures for Rapid Deployment of Public Health Interventions and Protection for Healthcare Workers from High-risk Diseases
  27. Observed Trends that Led to New Guidelines on Healthy Family Boundaries
  28. Measures to Ensure Safety of Police Officers in Light of Attack Using Improvised Flamethrower
  29. Migrant Workers' Access to Healthcare Services following Introduction of Primary Care Plan
  30. Making Services and Information on Government Disbursement Schemes Website Accessible to Illiterate or Digitally-challenged Persons
  31. Tripartite Guidelines on Restraint of Trade Clauses in Employment Contracts
  32. Effects of Mother Tongue Language Learning Options on Stress Levels of Students
  33. Singaporeans Caught Consuming Cannabis or Related Products Unwittingly in Light of Thailand's Cannabis Legalisation
  34. Rise in Public Flat Rentals Due To Income Increases and Quantum of Rental Increases
  35. Potential Impact of Singapore-Johor Bahru RTS Link on Retail Businesses in Singapore
  36. Dedicated Workspaces in Camps for NSmen to Handle Urgent Work during In-Camp Training
  37. Typical Nature of Youth Offences under Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive Weapons Act
  38. Review of Lifetime Funding Cap in Assistive Technology Fund amidst Rising Costs
  39. Timelines and Environmental Impact Assessments for Planned Developments in Marsiling, Woodlands and Sembawang Areas
  40. Plans for Eunos Community Club and Timeline of Club's Reopening
  41. Improving Public Recognition of Mental Health Conditions
  42. Data on Deaths and Injuries from Traffic Offences Related to Making Illegal Turns, and Accidents within Silver and School Zones
  43. Revising Quantum Amounts for Government Assistance Schemes to Better Help Low- and Medium-income Workers
  44. Developing New Technical Solutions to Detect High-rise Littering
  45. Data on Credit Card Fraud and Quantum of Losses
  46. Ensuring Food Available to Foreign Workers in Dormitories Is Safe and Nutritious
  47. Effectiveness of Childcare Sick Leave Provision to Civil Servants
  48. Amount and Percentage of Qualifying Child Relief and Parenthood Tax Rebate Not Tapped
  49. Tracking Rate of Miscarriages from IVF Pregnancies at Public Hospitals
  50. Plans for Marsiling Lane Market and Cooked Food Centre Given Increasing Resident Population
  51. Non-digital Applications for Singapore Citizenship, Permanent Residence or Long-Term Visit Pass
  52. Impact of Rezoning Amber Road Plot to "Residential" on Traffic Flow and Creation of Parks Spaces in the Area
  53. Expected Increase in Peak-hour Train Frequency on North-East Line with Progressive Addition of Six New Trains
  54. Cases of Failure to Report Change of Residential Address within 28 Days of Moving
  55. Cause of Tuas South Accident Involving Workers Transported on Lorry and Update for Review on Safety of Transporting Workers
  56. Lorries That Have Complied with Speed Limiters Requirement
  57. Proposed Dedicated Feeder Bus Service between Woodlands Checkpoint and Woodlands Bus Interchange
  58. Allowing Retired Civil Servants to Continue Accessing Learn.gov.sg Accounts
  59. Regulatory Requirements on Banks for Joint Accounts Upon Death of One Account Holder
  60. Number of Online Searches Performed when Full NRIC Numbers were Accessible on Bizfile Portal
  61. Number of NRIC Numbers Exposed in Bizfile Portal's Unmasking of NRIC Number Incident
  62. Review of Bizfile Portal's Unmasking of NRIC Numbers Incident Including Time Taken for Decision to Disable Function
  63. Number of Persons Affected by Bizfile Portal's Unmasking of NRIC Numbers
  64. Reaching Out to Persons Whose Unmasked NRIC Numbers were Obtained from Bizfile Portal
  65. Types of Data Displayed under Fee-based Access in Bizfile+ Portal and Efforts to Balance Privacy Concerns with Corporate Transparency
  66. US-Singapore Economic Cooperation and Trade in Past Five Years and Possible Growth Areas under New Trump Administration
  67. Actions against Businesses Flouting Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act and List of Specific Unfair Practices
  68. Electricity Consumption when Data Centres' Capacities Rise by A Third and Impact on Singapore's Greenhouse Emissions
  69. Malaysia’s Royal Commission of Inquiry’s Report on Pedra Branca and Its Impact on ICJ’s decision on Bilateral Dispute
  70. Statistics of Citizenships Granted in 2024 According to Gender, Age Group and Marital Status
  71. Use of Police Body-worn Camera Footage as Video Recording of Interviews in Non-capital Cases and Preserving Chain of Evidence for Such Footage
  72. Storage Capacity and Cost of Video and Audio Files Recorded by Police Body-worn and Other Cameras
  73. Keeping Track of or Assessing Singapore Citizens or Residents Placed On INTERPOL's Red Notice
  74. Minimising Potential for Traffic Police's Anti-drink Driving Operations to Cause Traffic Congestion
  75. Issuance of Advisories against Individuals at Conclusion of Police Investigations
  76. Increased Safety Measures or Training for Staff at Places of Worship in Light of Recent Knife Attack
  77. Help for Stay-alone Seniors to Formalise and Execute Their Wills
  78. Holding Exiting Fish Farmers Accountable for Marine Debris and Dumping
  79. Probe into Food Contamination in Case of Coral Princess Cruise Crew and Passengers Falling Ill in October 2024
  80. Actions to Address Average Score in Literacy Component for Singaporean Adults in OECD Survey
  81. Addressing School Attendance and Home Ownership Findings in Report on Supporting Lower-income Households
  82. Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect to National Anti-Violence and Sexual Harassment Helpline, and Follow-up Actions Taken
  83. Reducing Stigma Towards Individuals with Mental Health Conditions
  84. Number of Singaporeans on Long-term Anti-depressant Medication
  85. Prescription of Puberty Blockers to Individuals Experiencing Gender Dysphoria
  86. Reviewing MediSave Limits for Delivery Expenses in Light of Parenthood Promotion
  87. Option to Opt Out of Sharing Patient Health Data with National Electronic Health Record
  88. Timeline for Developing Guidelines on Next Generation Sequencing and Potential of Sequencing as Screening Tool
  89. Encouraging Stay-alone Seniors to Stay Connected with Community and Tracking of Seniors who Pass Away Alone
  90. Improving and Measuring Effectiveness of Digital Literacy Programmes for Elderly Citizens
  91. Public Lending Rights Scheme for Locally Written or Published Works to Address Loss of Sales when Works are Borrowed from Libraries
  92. Reasons behind Government's Decision to Stop Practice of Partially Masking NRIC Numbers
  93. Measures to Protect Public from Fraud and Guide Businesses on Collection of NRIC Numbers Given New NRIC Advisory
  94. Privacy Risks of Current NRIC Number Structure and Proposal to Allow Alternative Checksum System or Other Safeguards
  95. Separate Unique Identifier for Singapore Residents That is Different from NRIC Number for Use in Digital Systems
  96. Public Education on New Advisory to Move Away from Masked NRIC Numbers
  97. Reports of Suspected Scam Calls by Persons Citing Full NRIC Numbers Obtained Possibly from ACRA's Bizfile Portal
  98. Proposal for URA's Property Transactions E-service to Show Transactions where Caveats are Not Lodged
  99. Feasibility of Introducing Non-smoking HDB Blocks where Smoking Inside Homes is Not Allowed
  100. Past Instances where Funds from Co-operative Societies Liquidation Account were Used to Support Co-operative Movement
  101. Plans for Former St Joseph's Institution and Former Catholic High School Sites
  102. Relocation Plans for Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark under Greater Southern Waterfront Development Plan
  103. Observing 10th Anniversary of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's Death
  104. Renovation Plans for Futsal Court and other Facilities at Petal Gardens in Eunos Ward of Aljunied GRC
  105. Proposed Short-term Work Permits to Allow Households to Temporarily Hire Additional Migrant Domestic Worker
  106. Percentage of S Pass Holders Who Have Completed Cultural Orientation Programme
  107. Sectors with High Non-compliance Rates for Orders Made by Claims Tribunals in Favour of Freelancers and Workers
  108. Actions to Encourage Employers to Comply with New Tripartite Guidelines on Flexible Work Arrangement Requests
  109. Successful Applications by Foreign Workers to Work Temporarily While Assisting in Investigations
  110. Cases of Abuse of In-principle Approval System by Employers to Prevent Migrant Workers from Seeking Other Employment in Singapore
  111. Service Pattern along Circle Line Once Stage 6 is Completed
  112. Ensuring Sustainability of Public and Private Bus Services Given Ageing Profile of Current Bus Drivers
  113. Expediting Outstanding Projects on Connecting Covered Linkways to MRT Stations