I hope the discussion on whether the Government has become complacent will not end with Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat's recent defence of its record.
He was responding to an editorial in the Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao which listed a distressing number of failures that had occurred in recent months which it said had eroded confidence in the public service.
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