Lim Cheng Lock
Singapore
“Mr Speaker Sir, under subhead 003, a sum of $100 million will be provided to the Housing and Development Board. I believe this sum will be provided at an interest rate of 7¾ per cent. The Housing and Development Board, in assisting persons who wish to own Housing and Development Board homes, gives loans to persons purchasing H.D.B.”
“Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, That the sum to be allocated for Head 92 be reduced by $10 in respect of item 001 of subhead 201. Mr Speaker, Sir, a token vote of $10 has been entered in this item for the development of an underground car park at the Padang.”
“Mr Speaker. Sir, I beg to move, That the sum to be allocated for Head 31 be reduced by $10 in respect of item 001 of subhead 101. Sir, the provision of over $1.7 million is for the construction of a luxury hotel adjacent to the Hotel and Catering Training Centre.”
“Sir, very briefly, what I wanted to find out from the Minister is whether he is aware that the sum of $100 million is being provided to the Housing and Development Board at an interest rate of 7¾ per cent, whereas the Board is giving loans to purchasers of flats at an interest rate of 6¼ per cent, which means that the Government is subsid…”
“Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, That the sum to be allocated for Head 51 be reduced by $10 in respect of subhead 911*. (* The same amendment also stood in the name of Mr Hwang Soo Jin) Sir, in moving this amendment, I wish to seek information from the Minister for Communications as to whether he proposes to introduce a television informat…”
“Mr Speaker, Sir, I would like to find out from the Minister whether there is a policy on the marking out of parking lots in the city area. As you are aware, Sir, recently the marking out of parking lots has been extended to places away from the central area.”
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“Hansard, Volume 24, No. 1, col. 16, second paragraph.”
“We are at the present moment still using pre-Malaysian passports, and visas and entry permits for permission to enter Singapore are still being undertaken abroad either by the British Consulates or the Malaysian Embassies. I feel that to prolong this unnecessarily would have a detrimental effect on our country. We would rather see our own missions abroad and our own staff handling this matter. Mr Speaker, Sir, in the Speech of His Excellency the Yang di-Pertuan Negara on Finance, col. 16 of Hansard states: `The basic economic challenge is one of providing remunerative and meaningful employment to our predominantly youthful people.' I am drawing the attention ---”
“Here I would like to urge the Minister for National Development to consider and encourage our people to own their own homes, if it is within their means, rather than renting them from the Housing Board. One deterrent factor which prevents the people from owning their own homes is the cash deposit which, I believe, is about one-fifth of the total cost of the house. A good many people cannot afford this down payment deposit, but if an arrangement can be agreed upon, I am sure the home ownership scheme wilI have a great response. In this respect, I have two suggestions to offer to the Minister for National Development. Will he consider amending legislation to the Central Provident Fund to allow people with adequate contributions to use them as security for the down payment? The other alternative is whether he will allow employers, as has been done in private companies, to stand as sureties for the down payment. Mr Speaker, Sir, the proposal of the Government to re-register the population by issuing them with new identity cards is welcome. There are in Singapore a great number of people who are born in Singapore with birth certificates without their names on them. This problem has caused a lot of hardship and uncertainty to many Singapore citizens who wonder what their future will be. I would ask the Minister for Labour to consider a scheme where bona fide birth certificate holders can have their new identity cards registered as being Singapore citizens without having to go through the arduous process of obtaining citizenship again. Mr Speaker. Sir, on the establishment of missions abroad, I would like to draw the attention of the Minister to the new issue of passports for Singapore citizens on Singapore becoming an independent sovereign nation.”
“When such leaders do assume power, they are bound to cause a lot of misery to the people, and whatever happens in that country is hound to affect us. Mr Speaker, Sir, when such hostile actions are directed against us, we must ensure that they will not succeed in a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious society like ours, any other form of policy pursued to establish a one race, one language, and one religion is hound to create chaos for its people. With our independence, Mr Speaker, the prospects of our succeeding in establishing a tolerant multi-racial society are much greater, and our results and successes are hound to have an impact on our neighbours in contrast to what they are pursuing. Mr Speaker, in this First Session of Parliament, I welcome the Prime Minister's call to the Backbenchers to perform the role of the Opposition as a result of the decision of the Barisan Sosialis Members opposite to boycott this Assembly. As elected Members, we have an obligation to our electorate, and the Barisan Members, by staying away, have forfeited their right to open argument and open debate. What can be the intentions of this boycott? Are they planning a mass by-election or will they resort to armed struggle? Mr Speaker, I would like to touch on certain subjects and policies of the Government. Housing has been a successful achievement of the P.A.P. Government in the first five years, according to the Yang di-Pertuan Negara's Speech, we produced 51,000 units of low-cost housing. What was more important was the scheme for home ownership for the people, which has offered the public about 3,500 units. Under the second Five-Year housing programme; it is stated in the Speech that the number of units for sale to meet increasing demands will he decided upon.”
“Mr Speaker, Sir, the expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia four months ago has brought us independence as a sovereign State. Although there was rejoicing for the newly acquired freedom, there was also uncertainty and anxiety amongst many people in Singapore as to what their future would be. The speech which was delivered by the Yang di-Pertuan Negara last Wednesday in this First Parliament outlining the policy of this Government was most inspiring and most significant. The Address was very brief, but it gave our people the confidence and hope for the future as the approach to our problems is correct. Faced with Indonesian confrontation then and now, and an unfriendly Central Government who simply wanted to suppress us in all forms and see us down, it is reassuring to note that the leaders of our people are resolute and determined that we survive, that we succeed, and, above all, refuse to be intimidated. I need not recall events which led to our independence, but with independence new problems have been brought about. Up to now we have been able to withstand Indonesian confrontation. We managed to isolate the Communists and kept the Communalists down. We would be foolish to assume that the Communists will not intensify their activities to create chaos and to recover lost ground, nor can we overrule the fact that communal extremists will not emerge to take over the leadership of our immediate neighbouring country, as was reported in the Straits Times of 14th December, 1965 - the Prime Minister of our immediate neighbouring country was criticised for making a declaration to consider the call for the liberal use of other languages.”