Khaw Boon Wan: "Throughout this sad saga, what are the MPs of AHPETC doing? I don't expect them to takeover the job of their managing agent, but I do expect them to exercise close supervision and when problems arise or issues are highlighted, step up, take responsibility, look into them quickly, and then address them squarely."

"This is the accountability that we expected of all elected MPs, for that matter, any company director, any member of the governing board of a charity. Instead, what we have consistently gotten from the MPs of AHPETC is side-stepping and avoiding responsibility."

"First, no response. Then, 'in due course'. And then followed by a series of excuses blaming everybody else but their failure to perform. Finally last month, AHPETC declared that they have, I quote, 'embarked on a roadmap to enhance its aggregated arrears reporting module sometime in November 2014', unquote. This is their response to a problem in June 2013, 17 months earlier. Simply astounding."

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