There are more pressing issues than the cleaning of hawker centres to be discussed and debated in Parliament (“WP MPs ‘untruthful’, says Vivian”; Wednesday).
The 36-minute exchange in Parliament on Tuesday between Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Workers’ Party MPs could well have been devoted to health and safety matters like the haze situation and dengue.
As it is seldom that Parliament sits, it is imperative that MPs best utilise such sessions to address national issues.
The Bedok hawker centre cleaning saga should have been resolved long ago if both parties had thrashed it out in private.
After all, it is a constituency issue and should not be dragged into Parliament in the first place.
Jeffrey Law Lee Beng
* Letter first appeared in ST Forum (13 Jul)