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existing situation, or an identified need for seeking a
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required to support the follow-up work arising from these identified needs. This may very well mean that additional financial resources need to be injected into various programme areas. They are additional because at the time of compiling the Budget a number of months ago, the Committee on Science and Technology had not yet been set up and the Financial Secretary could not have budgeted for the additional work to be undertaken. Therefore, I would like to seek an assurance that wherever possible, sufficient financial resources will be provided to implement the
recommendations of the Committee on Science and Technology.
Without this commitment on the part of the Government,
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in industrial and economic development and, hence, in the improvement of the quality of life generally. Many nations actively encourage and promote their science and technology capabilities as a vital step towards improving their wealth and the wellbeing of their people. There is a general
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Government's determination to pay more attention to modern science and technology. I only seek to underline the 35 importance that such a determination to seek improvement 36 is supported by/determination to provide the necessary
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