In what looks like the strongest aspersions cast on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and the ministerial committee formed to look into 38 Oxley Road yet, the late Lee Kuan Yew's daughter Lee Wei Ling has declared the committee is a "façade" used by her eldest brother to "attack" LKY's will.

In a Facebook status published to her personal Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon, Wei Ling responded to Senior Minister of State Indranee Rajah, who on Tuesday morning asked why Hsien Yang and her have sought commitment from the government that the house will be demolished, so soon.

Here's a bullet list of the points Wei Ling made:

- Any signs of this request for commitment on the government's part came from her and Hsien Yang responding to questions posed to them by the committee.

But in the next line, she answers Indranee's question:

- "we seek to honour our father's final request in his will", after which she quoted the line about asking his children to ensure his wishes with regard to the demolition are carried out.

- Indranee said the ministerial committee was formed to consider Hsien Yang's and Wei Ling's request for the government to commit to demolish the house — this is false, says Wei Ling, noting that DPM Teo said the committee can only make a non-binding recommendation, not a commitment, in any regard.

"How can a committee be set up to consider a request when its deliverables (discovered only now) preclude it from fulfilling that request?"

Chicken-and-egg situation?

In other words, this has now become a debate on what came first — the Ministerial Committee, or LKY's estate (Hsien Yang and Wei Ling) making known its intention to demolish the house.

There has also been some quibbling over whether his estate was requesting that the house be demolished immediately after LKY passed away, or after Wei Ling moved out of the house.

The first mention of Hsien Yang's alleged intention to demolish the house immediately after LKY's passing appeared in PM Lee Hsien Loong's 41-paragraph statutory declaration, here:

"24. It was also during the reading of the Last Will on 12 April 2015 that the dispute between LHY and me arose. At the reading, LHY repeatedly insisted on the immediate demolition of the House. I said that such a move so soon after Mr Lee’s passing, when the public’s emotions were still raw, might force the Government to promptly react by deciding to gazette the House, and that would not be in the interests of Mr Lee’s legacy or Singapore. That discussion only ended when HC intervened to ask LWL if she wanted to continue living in the House. LWL said she did, which made the question of demolition moot. LHY then stopped insisting on the immediate demolition of the House. (emphasis ours)"

This was then brought up again by DPM Teo Chee Hean, in his statement sharing how he was the one who formed the Ministerial Committee to look into options for the house:

"Some have asked why then a ministerial committee was established if no immediate decision was necessary? Due process is needed to consider the various options before making any decision on the house. This can take some time. I also considered several other factors.

First, if Dr Lee chooses to move out of the house in the near future, a decision on what to do about the house might have to be taken at that point.

Second, soon after Mr Lee’s passing, the Executors of Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s will (Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling) themselves wanted the Government to commit itself immediately to demolishing the house, though Dr Lee Wei Ling might continue to live in the House for many more years.

Three, some of us in Cabinet, including me, felt it would be useful if a future Government deciding on the house had a set of options that came from ministers who had personally discussed this matter with Mr Lee Kuan Yew. (emphasis ours)"

We didn't hear any direct response from Hsien Yang about these assertions, until it was brought up again by Indranee on Tuesday.

In his response to her, he then said: "We have never asked the Government to allow us to demolish the house now, only after Wei Ling's departure."

And if you think about it, even if PM Lee's statutory declaration is factually accurate as detailed above, Hsien Yang is not contradicting his brother — even if he in April 2015 called for the immediate demolition of the house, it was during the private reading of LKY's will, not a call for the government to do so.

Wei Ling's post steers the conflict away from what was said or done in response to what, though — for her, the ministerial committee cannot consider to commit to any request to demolish the house because DPM Teo said it can only make non-binding recommendations previously.

You can read Wei Ling's full Facebook post here: