Clarification by Minister of State for Home Affairs

7.42 pm

The Minister of State for Home Affairs (Assoc Prof Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim): Thank you for allowing me to make a clarification.

With regard to my reply, to the supplementary question asked by Mr Dennis Tan during the Oral reply for Parliamentary Question No 1 at the Sitting of 24 February 2023, I mentioned that there will be a Coroner's inquiry and that it will be public information. [Please refer to "Inquiry into Death of SCDF NSF Firefighter in December 2022", Official Report, 24 February 2023, Vol 95, Issue 86, Oral Answers to Questions section.]

I should clarify that the State Coroner may decide to hold a Coroner's inquiry, as I had previously shared in January. It will be held in open Court and it will be public information, unless the Coroner has sufficient reason not to do so.