Tiered pricing for utilities, nationalising public transport among WP’s proposals in parliament to ease costs of living

Acting Minister for Transport Chee Hong Tat and Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh speaking during a debate in parliament on Nov 7, 2023.

However, he reiterated that his party disagrees with the continuation of the status quo as the word “continue” might suggest, and urged the government to review its policies as his party proposed various “structural changes”, which all eight WP MPs took turns to raise in Parliament. This comes after the government announced an upcoming hike of 18.2 per cent in household water prices in two phases, starting from next April.

“It is well known that a key driver of the costs of producing electricity is not the total load, but the peak hour load,” she said. NCMP Leong Mun Wai asked if the government can consider charging higher tariffs for large consumers of water such as industrial users so that they can foot the bulk of the rising cost of water production instead of the average Singaporeans.

MP Gerald Giam noted that the public transport model is a hybrid of government ownership over assets and operating contracts for services provided by public transport operator companies. He suggested relooking how COE categories are segmented, and hiving off those for private-hire cars from privately owned cars.

On Ms Poa’s suggestion of a point-based system to give more advantage for families to own cars, he said that while he understands where she was coming from, “it is not so simple in practice”. Senior Minister of State for National Development Sim Ann said that the government has broadly maintained measures of public housing affordability, while addressing three main imbalances that have affected recent housing price movements: The delay of the HDB building programme in the last three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant rise in HDB resale prices, and the pricing of Build-To-Order flats in mature estates.

Ms Sim said that HDB is “already doing all it can on the supply side” and has activated more levers to manage demand, such as by prioritising Build-to-Order flats for young married couples.Mr Chee and Mr Leong of PSP also crossed swords at one point in the debate.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

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