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* Indranee Rajah was firmly asserting that "Mr Faisal is unaware" and that HDB already allows individuals undergoing divorce proceedings to apply for rental flats before an interim or final judgment is obtained when WP's [[Faisal Manap]], MP for Aljunied GRC highlighted a recurring issue where divorcing couples struggle to secure rental housing before finalizing their divorce. | * Indranee Rajah was firmly asserting that "Mr Faisal is unaware" and that HDB already allows individuals undergoing divorce proceedings to apply for rental flats before an interim or final judgment is obtained when WP's [[Faisal Manap]], MP for Aljunied GRC highlighted a recurring issue where divorcing couples struggle to secure rental housing before finalizing their divorce. | ||
* when [[Pritam Singh]] showed a letter from HDB dated 1 May 2024 that contradicted her assertion, she then backtracked by claiming that HDB’s case-by-case approach might have caused confusion and offered to review the agency’s procedures to ensure greater clarity. | * when [[Pritam Singh]] showed a letter from HDB dated 1 May 2024 that contradicted her assertion, she then backtracked by claiming that HDB’s case-by-case approach might have caused confusion and offered to review the agency’s procedures to ensure greater clarity.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250305103833/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/02/06/indranee-rajah-backtracks-on-claim-divorcing-applicants-face-no-hdb-rental-hurdles/</ref> | ||
===No further action on Speaker's unparliamentary remarks=== | ===No further action on Speaker's unparliamentary remarks=== | ||
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* Indranee Rajah, as Leader of the House, then submitted a separate motion, calling on the House to resolve to consider the matter concerning [[S Iswaran]] once the outcome of the ongoing investigations against him becomes known, thereby allowing the minister to continue drawing a pay while under investigation. | * Indranee Rajah, as Leader of the House, then submitted a separate motion, calling on the House to resolve to consider the matter concerning [[S Iswaran]] once the outcome of the ongoing investigations against him becomes known, thereby allowing the minister to continue drawing a pay while under investigation. | ||
* [[Lim Tean]] had questioned why [[S Iswaran]] was given "special treatment" when another individual working in a ministry was arrested and charged by the CPIB, leading to his suspension without pay.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250305102043/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2023/09/19/lim-tean-expresses-outrage-over-indranees-counter-motion-on-minister-iswarans-mp-pay-suspension/</ref> | * [[Lim Tean]] had questioned why [[S Iswaran]] was given "special treatment" when another individual working in a ministry was arrested and charged by the CPIB, leading to his suspension without pay.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250305102043/https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2023/09/19/lim-tean-expresses-outrage-over-indranees-counter-motion-on-minister-iswarans-mp-pay-suspension/</ref> | ||
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=== Stated conflict of interest accusations unfounded in Oxley Road Saga=== | |||
* Lee Hsien Yang and sister Lee Wei Ling had singled out Attorney-General Lucien Wong in their online posts about the Oxley Road dispute, highlighting that he was the personal lawyer of their brother, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and had attained his position in January this year (2017) | |||
* K. Shanmugam, whose inclusion in the ministerial committee was a conflict of interest, given that he had been consulted extensively on the process of will-drafting by the late [[Lee Kuan Yew]], the younger Lee children had maintained. | |||
* MP Sylvia Lim (Aljunied GRC) had also raised a similar query on potential conflict of interest about Deputy Attorney-General Hri Kumar Nair, who was previously a People's Action Party member until his resignation earlier this year. | |||
* Indranee Rajah stated it was too excessive a criteria to suggest that officers from the Attorney-General's Office must not have previous links to ministers or political parties | |||
* therefore she maintained that concerns about conflict of interest involving the Attorney-General's Office were unfounded<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250305105838/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/oxley-road-conflict-of-interest-accusations-unfounded-says-sms-indranee</ref> | |||
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