Indranee served as
Deputy Speaker of Parliament between 2006 and 2011.
On 31 July 2012, Indranee was designated as
Senior Minister of State for Law and
Senior Minister of State for Education before being appointed on 1 November 2012.
[4]
Indranee led a 12-member committee in 2013 to provide a strategic direction for the planned third law school in Singapore, including its admissions criteria, curriculum development and educational philosophy.
[5] On 16 February 2016, the committee which includes the
Ministry of Law and
Singapore University of Social Sciences, held a joint press conference to announce the opening of the
SUSS School of Law.
[6]
Indranee relinquished her position as Senior Minister of State for Education, before being appointed as
Senior Minister of State for Finance on 1 October 2015.
[7]
On 9 March 2018, Indranee criticised
Workers' Party Member of Parliament
Sylvia Lim on
Facebook after the latter voiced her suspicion on the government's intention to raise the
GST in order to extract an apology. The public criticised Indranee and other PAP members for hounding Lim and being narrow-minded, and supported Lim for asking a legitimate question on behalf of her constituents.
[8]
On 1 May 2018, Indranee was appointed as
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for Education. She was succeeded by
Edwin Tong as Second Minister for Law on 30 June 2018.
[9]
On 20 August 2020, Indranee was appointed as
Leader of the House for the
14th Parliament.
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