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26.11.86
8.30 12.15 p.m.
Reporter:
MEP
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Well Mr Director, let us get on to
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another subject which is also another big subject, paragraphs 146 - 151 of the Director of Audit's Report. This is in relationship
with the Hunghom Railway Stadium. It is now
what is it now?
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Coliseum
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Hunghom Coliseum.
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MR LEE:
of the Audit Report.
Mr Director, may I refer to paragraph 149 There was a statement saying that when the Finance Committee approved the project, they were informed that the structural form of the inverted pyramid design of the Coliseum was simple and relatively economical to construct and why, what was thought to be a simple and relatively economical design turned out to be extremely complex, expensive and difficult to construct, and whether the difficulties encountered should have been foreseen by the professionals within your Department.
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Firstly the design in concept, is simple very simple and without detailed investigation and detailed study. the difficulties arising from the actual construction cannot be
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100% made known, and the system at that -- the Public Works Programme procedure at that time do not permit us to go into detailed design before the project was upgraded to category A.
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the Government committed the project before having the benefit of detailed design. Now that procedure has since changed. The Public Works programme procedure has now added another step which is
category AB. In other words from B to AB is the time for you to prepare your sketch design and from AB to A, your detail of design, so you have added a step, so that we the Works Department, can safely say at the stage where the Government committed itself to the project, what really we are talking about. Now at that time, at this time, the procedure is not there. We did not I admit that we don't know the difficulty because we hadn't carried out detailed design. As simple as that. As to your later part of your question, it turned out to be difficult. It turned out to be more expensive.
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