“Once granted, people come to expect them year after year,” said Sengkang GRC MP Jamus Lim in parliament on Oct 6.

He said repeatedly collecting tax revenue before redistributing it through vouchers could foster what he called a “coupon culture” and make such support harder to remove when it is no longer needed.

The Australian government was notified weeks later about the Medicare hack.

Speaking during a parliamentary inquiry, Jason Kwon said, "that should not have happened. We also should have handled our response better."

Kwon also announced that OpenAI is setting up a local task force to better manage the risks associated with increasingly capable AI.

Drawing on the board game, Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC MP Elysa Chen proposed higher taxes on owners of multiple investment properties in parliament on Tuesday (Oct 6).

Noting that young couples looking for a home are not competing on equal terms with investors who already own multiple properties, she proposed progressively higher rental income tax rates from the second investment property onwards. Owner-occupied homes and a person’s first investment property would continue to enjoy existing concessionary property tax rates, Ms Chen said.

However, older retrenched professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) had lower re-entry rates. Ms Lau added that among those earning less, the median wage reduction was around 25 per cent of pre-retrenchment wages.

Those in their 40s and 50s accounted for more than half of retrenched residents, she said.

“Even with strong safeguards, no system can eliminate the possibility of wrongdoing entirely,” he told parliament on Tuesday (Oct 6).

The government will consider changes if its review finds gaps, he said, but “any further measures should be proportionate to the risks and practical to implement”.

Flynn apologised to his family in court but remained adamant that he was innocent.