Hazel Poa

Speech on Committee of Supply Debate 2025: Ensuring Affordable Healthcare with Annual MediSave Adjustments by NCMP Hazel Poa

In her address to Parliament, PSP’s NCMP Hazel Poa urged the Government to implement automatic annual adjustments to MediSave withdrawal limits, indexed to healthcare cost inflation, to ensure that elderly Singaporeans can better afford medical expenses without depleting their cash savings. She highlighted the inadequacy of current limits, particularly for outpatient care, and called for […]

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Speech on Committee of Supply Debate 2025: Aligning Employer Incentives with Social Goals to Support Families by NCMP Hazel Poa

NCMP Hazel Poa proposed leveraging foreign manpower quotas to incentivize family-friendly workplace policies, arguing that employers who support parental leave and hire marginalized groups should receive additional manpower allocations. Speaking during the Committee of Supply debate, she emphasized that such a reallocation would align business interests with societal goals, helping to address declining fertility rates

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Speech on Committee of Supply Debate 2025: Making PSLE Optional and Reducing Class Sizes by NCMP Hazel Poa

NCMP Hazel Poa urged the government to pilot a 10-year through-train programme and reduce class sizes, arguing that this would ease student stress, reduce reliance on tuition, and better support diverse learning needs. Speaking during the Committee of Supply debate for the Ministry of Education in Budget 2025, she highlighted how the PSLE’s high stakes

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Speech on Motion for Supporting Singaporeans in Starting and Raising Families Speech by NCMP Hazel Poa

Delivered by NCMP Hazel Poa in Parliament on 5 February 2025, she emphasized the need for a careful balance between preserving racial harmony and protecting freedom of speech in Singapore, particularly in the context of the Maintenance of Racial Harmony Bill. While supporting laws to maintain public order and peace in a multi-racial society, she

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Adjournment Motion: A more equitable COE system for Private Vehicles by Hazel Poa

On 7 January 2025., NCMP Hazel Poa raised an adjournment motion in Parliament to propose a fairer COE (Certificate of Entitlement) system, calling for a hybrid model factoring both economic and social needs. She suggested distributing COE credits based on family size, age, and disability, aiming to lower car ownership costs for those with greater

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Speech on Hawker Culture Motion by Hazel Poa

NCMP Hazel Poa spoke in Parliament on 13 November 2024 in support of Mr. Leong Mun Wai’s Hawker Culture Motion to keep hawker food affordable amid rising living costs, proposing fixed stall rents, targeted government subsidies for budget meals, and a centralized procurement system to lower hawker costs. She also suggested alternative stall allocation methods

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Child Development Co-Savings (Amendment) Bill – Hazel Poa

NCMP Hazel Poa spoke in Parliament on 13 November 2024 in support of the Child Development Co-Savings (Amendment) Bill. She believed that these measures, though unlikely to immediately impact Singapore’s low fertility rate, will foster stronger family bonds and encourage parental involvement, which benefits child development and maternal health. Hazel also called on the government

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