“Unrealistic” to expect zero lapses in the use of public funds - Indranee

[Confuseous]

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Indranee Rajah said in Parliament on Monday (13 Sep) that it will be “unrealistic” to expect zero lapses in the use of public funds, given the scale and complexity of Government operations.
“With 150,000 officers in the public service handling hundreds of thousands of transactions each year, and more than 2,000 Government IT systems built over the years by different vendors and using different technologies, human errors and process gaps will occur from time to time,” she argued.

On the recurring lapses, Ms Indranee noted that these lapses have been in the areas of procurement and contracts management, IT controls and grants management, which share common factors like the scale and complexity of operations, a constantly changing operating environment, high volume of transactions and multiple touchpoints.

“What is important therefore is that we must have the means to pick up such lapses and address them in an upfront and transparent manner,” she added.

According to Ms Indranee, in the past five years, six agencies have been mentioned in the AGO report for recurring lapses which are mainly in the areas of procurement, contract management and IT controls.

“These are the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Ministry of Finance (MOF), the Ministry of Health (MOH), and the People’s Association (PA).

“The lapses arose from gaps in agencies processors and human factors,” she noted.

 

[Giant]

I thought they always said they are the best, that is why their pay so high right? How come their pay no lapse in computing?

 

[laksaboy]

Ownself check ownself, we can only expect zero lapses to be reported.

 

[batman1]

PAP always wear white and declared zero tolerance for corruption,misappropriation of funds and CBT.Now TualiapNee said 'unrealistic'to expect zero lapses in use of public funds ? TualipaNee Too long in power and forget why she is a minister to govern,she forget she is talking about public money (taxpayers money) in parliament .
Sleeping on the job somemore want to give a lot of excuses.

 

[glockman]

Yes, we do not dispute that all humans make mistakes now and then. But why should some of these humans be paid super-human salaries?

 

[nayr69sg]

Yes, we do not dispute that all humans make mistakes now and then. But why should some of these humans be paid super-human salaries?

Because they somehow still manage to make Singapore property prices rise and rise and rise! Huat ar!!!!

They have added value to Singapore property market. Billions!

 

[pvtpublic]

People's Association makes the AGC list every year.

that place must be a cesspool of corruption and cronyism. it's a blight upon the government. better to disband it and restart from scratch.

 

[bobby]

Right they say...wrong they say.

 

[Gallego99]

Its a recurring problem for the longest time. Are you suggesting we do away with audits?

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN my uncle think bank teller low celery but not acceptable by bank to have any lapses leespite handling thousands of transactions KNN

 

[shittypore]

Big Neh Neh need a spanking for admitting these lapses taking place.

 

[mahjongking]

Its a recurring problem for the longest time. Are you suggesting we do away with audits?

we should do away with all the fucking pap mp parasites

 

[Loofydralb]

PAP joining the gravy train now.
LKY for all his imperfections, would be turning over in hell now.

 

[Gallego99]

It could be symptoms of an impending systemic failure. Trying to reframe the subject as x transactions with y mistakes is simply lame.

 

[birdie69]

PAP always wear white and declared zero tolerance for corruption,misappropriation of funds and CBT.Now TualiapNee said 'unrealistic'to expect zero lapses in use of public funds ? TualipaNee Too long in power and forget why she is a minister to govern,she forget she is talking about public money (taxpayers money) in parliament .
Sleeping on the job somemore want to give a lot of excuses.

She even forgot that she draws millions dollars salary to ensure zero lapse.
Why pays millions dollars if no zero lapse? Any Tom, Dick and Harry can replace her in no time, since no zero lapse is the new criteria as a government.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Haha.... the usual twist words to fit your agenda crap.

Who expected zero lapse?

 

[birdie69]

People's Association makes the AGC list every year.

that place must be a cesspool of corruption and cronyism. it's a blight upon the government. better to disband it and restart from scratch.

Maybe they should start from looking into the projects that not require open tender, so many projects in many constituencies need not open tender.

 

[birdie69]

PAP always wear white and declared zero tolerance for corruption,misappropriation of funds and CBT.Now TualiapNee said 'unrealistic'to expect zero lapses in use of public funds ? TualipaNee Too long in power and forget why she is a minister to govern,she forget she is talking about public money (taxpayers money) in parliament .
Sleeping on the job somemore want to give a lot of excuses.

She should be removed since she can't meet the zero lapse tolerance

 

[laksaboy]

People's Association makes the AGC list every year.

that place must be a cesspool of corruption and cronyism. it's a blight upon the government. better to disband it and restart from scratch.

AGC is like CASE... all bark and no bite. Anyone involved lost their jobs? Jailed?

Quite frankly, they are all the same bunch of doggies... all kaki lang. Typical totalitarian shithole with zero oversight.

 

[borom]

This is one area I agree that PAP is world class -making convenient excuses for itself while coming down very very hard on others-eg why such a high punitive fine of $300 for not clearing table esp when your meals may cost only $5?
They are the expert in bullying its own people while making life easy for themselves