Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Ask the correct question to the correct ministry.

It was another marathon session tonight when the Parliament today (18th October) was only adjourned at 11pm. And the last minister to serve his wonding up speech was Datuk Wira Fong Chan Onn (BN-Alor Gajah), our poor Human Resources Minister who had to take care of some many "minta penjelasans' from the ground.

Of course, the biggest problem he had probably will be questions from Backbenchers especially on unemployed graduates, and also the retraining programmes.

Some backbenchers doesn't seem to be satisfied with his rhetorical answer and continue to pursue the issue even though it was about 10:45pm, 15 minutes more before adjournment. Some of their questions were quite sharp and the Minister seemed to be shaky in his reply.

Finally, Chong Eng (DAP-Bukit Mertajam) stood up to ask him a question...he rejected in the beginning, but Chong Eng kept pursuing:

"Soalan terakhir sekali...terakhir...satu sahaja...terakhir"

"Jangan bimbang, saya mau tolong Menteri."

"Satu soalan terakhir sahaja. Untuk tolong menteri."

So, after a few assurance, Fong Chan Onn finally gave way, and there's when the Parliament was heated up again when Chong Eng pointed to the House that questions from fellow backbenchers should better be directed to Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of Education as these two ministries are responsible for the low quality of graduates produced by our education institutions while Fong's ministry is merely doing the final dirty job to clear the mess.

Of course, Hishammuddin (BN-Sembrong), the Education Minister was quite frustrated to hear this.

I am quite agreed with what Chong Eng said, that the poor Minister of Human Resources is doing the dirty jobs for the other two Ministers. And of course, all members of the house may as well ask the correct question to the correct ministry, else this will be a great blunder.

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