A DAP parliamentarian has expressed regret at the statement by Education Minister Mahdzir Khalid on the budget cuts which had affected maintenance and development allocations for Chinese primary schools, as reported by China Press yesterday.

“For example, if it was the minister and his deputy who did not get their pay or monthly allowance, they would lodge a complaint with the Finance Ministry immediately, and not only after one year of not receiving their pay and allowance.

“Take what you can is not a solution. The lack of funding and delay in delivery of the allocations should have been detected in mid-2016 or earlier,’ Rasah MP Teo Kok Seong said in a statement.