Special ministerial committees ensure national interest prevails: Tharman

Singapore

THE practice of setting up special ministerial committees began many years ago and this is how the government ensures that important issues are given in-depth attention, said Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Thursday.

Commenting on the Oxley Road saga for the first time, he said these committees also ensure that the government is not one that "operates in silos", and that the national interest prevails even where there are valid sectoral or private interests.