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have made a choice in life on the whole not to work'
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Well, Mr Chairman
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but to pinch and steal instead, and
they have got to be trained up from zero with no financial incentive,
or very little, and they are pretty bloody-minded people too.
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point of training.
The
I am glad Mr Secretary brought out the
reason why I ask how long they would be in
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the prison, you know
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I know, I know.
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in this situation for three years, if
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Right.
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MR CHEONG:
And that is in the training authority for clothing, it takes six weeks to train a fully skilled operator.
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I am sure.
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Even assuming that the people that you have are very difficult etc, etc, well say, nine months? They still have a useful working period for two and a quarter years.
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So why are they
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still only producing one compared with a target of three? was certainly set by the Prison Industry Department, surely.
The target
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Incentive and the type of people they are.
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The ideal target, the ideal, we are striving for that. I would like to add that the blind workers have 10 to 15 years of experience and they earn HK$40 a day. A prisoner earns HK$18
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a week on average.
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