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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: The Underemployment Problem by NCMP Leong Mun Wai

NCMP Leong Mun Wai urged the government to rebalance its manpower policy, citing growing underemployment and the need for greater transparency in employment data for Singaporeans and PRs. He highlighted rising education costs, stagnant wages, and worsening housing affordability, calling for fair job opportunities, better wages, and stronger social support to build a “first-world Singapore”

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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 Budget 2025 by NCMP Leong Mun Wai

In his address to Parliament during Budget 2025, NCMP Leong Mun Wai acknowledged the short-term financial relief provided but criticized the government’s reliance on ad hoc handouts, arguing that such measures fail to address Singapore’s long-term structural economic challenges. He advocated for permanent policies such as affordable public housing, a national healthcare scheme, a minimum

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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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Speech on Workplace Fairness Bill by NCMP Leong Mun Wai

In the Parliament session on the 8th January 2025, NCMP Leong Mun Wai welcomed the Workplace Fairness Bill as a step toward addressing workplace discrimination but raised concerns about its adequacy in protecting Singaporeans’ job prospects. Highlighting issues like wage disparities, underemployment, and exemptions, he called for stronger measures and a holistic approach to ensure

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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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