Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Prime Minister whether the Government has considered instituting mandatory or default opt-in cooling-off periods of a short duration for large, potentially anomalous transactions involving cross-border fund transfers, to allow for fund recovery in cases where victims become aware of the fraudulent nature of the scam relatively soon after they areContinue reading “PROPOSAL FOR OPT-IN DEFAULT COOLING-OFF PERIOD FOR CROSS-BORDER FUND TRANSFERS OF LARGE AMOUNTS TO PREVENT FRAUD”
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IMPLICATION OF NEW PROTOCOL FOR PCR TEST RESULTS FOR RECOVERED COVID-19 PATIENTS
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health whether the protocol that disregards active polymerase chain reaction test results for recovered COVID-19 individuals, as long as their cycle threshold (CT) values are sufficiently high, is also applied to newly-detected (and especially asymptomatic) cases which may be at the beginning or tail end of their infection.Continue reading “IMPLICATION OF NEW PROTOCOL FOR PCR TEST RESULTS FOR RECOVERED COVID-19 PATIENTS”
PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR BEREAVED FAMILIES TO OFFSET ELEVATED COVID-19 RELATED FUNERAL EXPENSES
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment in view of elevated costs for COVID-19 related funeral expenses, whether the Ministry is exploring providing some additional financial support for bereaved families to offset these costs. Ms Grace Fu Hai Yien: Funeral expenses would vary depending on the desired funeral arrangements for theContinue reading “PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR BEREAVED FAMILIES TO OFFSET ELEVATED COVID-19 RELATED FUNERAL EXPENSES”
TRAINED MEDICAL PERSONNEL TO EXPLAIN NATURE OF POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION CYCLE THRESHOLD (CT) VALUES TO COVID-19 PATIENTS AND RELEASE CT VALUES TO PATIENTS
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health (a) whether medical personnel are trained to explain the nature of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cycle threshold (CT) values to COVID‐19 patients; and (b) whether it is in the standard operating procedures not to release the CT values to the COVID‐19 patients when such values areContinue reading “TRAINED MEDICAL PERSONNEL TO EXPLAIN NATURE OF POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION CYCLE THRESHOLD (CT) VALUES TO COVID-19 PATIENTS AND RELEASE CT VALUES TO PATIENTS”
COS 2021: Commercial Spaces in HDB Multi-storey Carparks
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Mr Chairman, the design of modern towns, such as Sengkang, the constituency I represent, tends to be denser, with commercial spaces and similar amenities located in specific clusters, often close to a transportation hub. Such design, undeniably makes sense from an urban planning perspective and can help minimise residentialContinue reading “COS 2021: Commercial Spaces in HDB Multi-storey Carparks”
COS 2021: Smaller Class Sizes
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Mr Chairman, Singapore currently has one of the highest average class sizes among advanced countries in Primary and Secondary schools. In 2019, it amounted to 33 students per class. In contrast, the average among industrialised economies is a little more than 20. Even in East Asian economies such asContinue reading “COS 2021: Smaller Class Sizes”
COS 2021: Re-skilling and the Promise of Re-employment
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Chairman, currently, WSG offers a Professional Conversion Programme, or PCP, that seeks to enable mid-career PMETs to undergo skills conversion into new occupations or sectors; as well as SkillsFuture credits for all Singaporeans to prepare themselves for potential career transitions. SkillsFuture and the PCP received a further boost under theContinue reading “COS 2021: Re-skilling and the Promise of Re-employment”
COS 2021: Spending Wisely on National R&D
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Chairman, I wish to declare that I work at a research-oriented Institution of Higher Learning. In 2017, our national expenditure on research and expenditure, as a share of national output, amounted to a low shy of 2%. This amount is actually below the global average of 2.3% and, perhaps, moreContinue reading “COS 2021: Spending Wisely on National R&D”
COS 2021: Case for an Independent Fiscal Council
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Chairman, fiscal councils are agencies staffed by professional civil servants which evaluate policy proposals to provide budgetary implications. To-date, there almost 40 fiscal councils worldwide concentrated among advanced economies. Some are comparatively older. The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis dates back to just after the end of theContinue reading “COS 2021: Case for an Independent Fiscal Council”
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