[Pic Credit: Flowers left on Lee Kuan Yew's Parliament Seat; TODAY]
Several Members of Parliament are set to raise questions and suggestions on how to honour Lee Kuan Yew even more during Monday's Parliament sitting.
Some of the suggestions being made include dedicating a Founder's day to him, putting his face on Singapore's notes and coins as well as serious parliamentary questions about renaming Changi Airport after Lee Kuan Yew.
The list of questions to be fielded were released in the Order Paper and it shows that these questions have been fielded by various PAP MPs.
Here are the top questions on the order paper:
Parliament had already dedicated a special parliamentary session to pay tribute to Mr Lee Kuan Yew during the week of national mourning and many ground-up initiatives were launched petitioning for various things to be renamed Lee Kuan Yew. A petition calling for the airport to be made the LKY international airport gained over 12,000 signatures and was received by Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew who said that he would bring it up for consideration.
The other issues such as printing Mr Lee's face on money has also been raised by citizens before. It seems that the suggestions and calls to continue honouring Mr Lee are not over. However at the same time, we must be careful not to go overboard.
Even Mr Lee himself said in his books that he does not want monuments put up in tribute to him. Is this wish being considered when these suggestions to rename things are being put forward?
In total there are a total of 31 questions being fielded and there are also 4 bills being introduced for debate.
The 4 proposed new bills involve the rules around the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Government securities. There are also new rules being proposed for the control of unmanned aircrafts and third-party booking apps.
The full order paper and list of questions for discussion can be seen here.