ctor
Date:
28.11.86
Time:
8.30
12.30
Reporter:
PMS
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Yes.
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MR CHEONG:
of the report.
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Yes.
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He didn't just make the comparison to the private sector. Number one, he said there was a target of making three pairs of trousers a day and you have only been achieving one. Against that, there is a factory for the blind workers who are physically handicapped and they produce four pairs a day. And it is only the skilled workers in passing that he mentioned in a commercial factory that produce 14 a day.
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S for S:
Yes, but as he was making a comparison
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with a factory in the private sector.
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MR CHEONG:
No.
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The 14 a day.
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MR CHEONG:
No, no. There was also the blinded
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Yes, I know, but he still made the
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comparison with the private sector factory at 14 a day. He also,
I agree
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comparisons.
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Mr Secretary, it is a series of
You
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S for S:
Yes, I know, I agree, but he still made the comparison. He also made the comparison with the blind. Now again the blind, you are dealing with people who have been working, probably working in this skill for a long long time and they have got the incentive because they are earning a decent wage. But with people in prisons you are talking about, as I said, guys who really
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