Below are my personal opinions on the ministerial salary debate in Parliament on 9 April 2007 between Workers' Party Member of Parliament Low Thia Khiang and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, reprised in the first part (http://melvintansg.blogspot.com/

2008/07/ministerial-salary-debate-revisited.html).



For a start, I differ otherwise from the Deputy Speaker, Mr Matthias Yao, and find that Mr Low has sufficiently responded to MM Lee's clarifications.



MM Lee had asked if the three countries raised as examples by Mr Low emulated Singapore's economic achievements; Mr Low's reply was obviously yes because these countries are also first world countries according to the definition of the United Nations, albeit having different conditions.



MM Lee next asked if they did so with a population as miniature as Singapore, a point Mr Low had earlier addressed and acknowledged that their cond[...]