Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang (Nee Soon): Mr Chairman, I beg to move, “That the total sum to be allocated for Head L of the Estimates be reduced by $100”. When I stand up to speak in this House, I am often raising questions or asking the Ministry for things. This time, I am standing to thank the Ministry for the phenomenal job it has done on our climate policies. Of course, I still have questions and many more things to ask for,....
Ms Carrie Tan (Nee Soon): Mr Chairman, we need Flexible Work to be an imperative, as a country that needs to increase our total fertility rate – at the same time that people are coping with the rising demands of eldercare. One way to leapfrog this is to progress towards work-life integration, instead of getting stuck and caught with “work-life balance”. This goes beyond mere semantics to a fundamental shift in mindset and concept. “Balance” reinforces the idea that “work”....