The Chairman: Mr Ong Hua Han.

Mr Ong Hua Han: I have a clarification for Senior Parliamentary Secretary Eric Chua. I thank Senior Parliamentary Secretary for those encouraging stories and an inspiring call to action in your speech.

Does MSF or SG Enable actively track and engage those who successfully graduate from the Sheltered Workshop-to-Work (SWW) Programme, say after one or two years, to ensure that they do not fall back into unemployment or sheltered workshops a few years post-transition? I ask this because I do share your concern and perhaps those of other Members as well, that we might become too fixated on the EMP 2030 target of 40% employment and inadvertently neglect stability of open employment of PwDs.

Mr Eric Chua: I thank Mr Ong for his clarification. I think a quick point to note is that with the launch of the Enabling Business Hub in Jurong last year, we have facilitated an increase of job support services that is provided to PwDs from one year to two years and the intensity of job support services is actually increased, where needed. So, I do not have the numbers on hand as to how many of PwDs drop out after one year and at the different milestone times, but rest assured that the passion as well as the appetite to really look at helping a PwD, not just land the job, but to really sustain and remain in employment is there.

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