Minister for Transport Chee Hong Tat, Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Janil Puthucheary, Minister of State for Home Affairs and Social and Family Development Sun Xueling and Director of National Trades Union Congress's U SME and Women and Family Unit Yeo Wan Ling toured the Punggol Coast Bus Interchange on 20 May 2025.
Mr Chee is Minister for Transport. It seems justifiable for him to tour the interchange. But is it necessary for a Cabinet Minister to tour a soon-to-be-opened interchange? Isn't it a waste of several hours of his time that could have been better spent looking after transportation matters?
Or, could it have been that Mr Chee had been informed by the Prime Minister that he would within the next few days relinquish his transport portfolio (this was announced on 21 May 2025), so no better time than now to spend a few hours touring the facility?
Neither Mr Janil nor Ms Sun was representing their respective ministries (at least I don't see the connection); they were present in their capacities as Members of Parliament for Punggol, within which the interchange is located. Did they take annual leave from their paid full-time jobs to tour the interchange?
(I won't comment on the relevance of Ms Yeo's present, other than that she is also a Member of Parliament for Punggol, since I am not familiar with NTUC's U SME or its Women and Family Unit.)
If Mr Chee, Mr Janil and Ms Sun can take time off from their work at their respective ministries to tour the interchange, is it any wonder why our Cabinet is so bloated with so many senior ministers, ministers, senior ministers of state, ministers of state, senior parliamentary secretaries and parliamentary secretaries.
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