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servants want to avoid taking decisions
they seek shelter in the skirts of consultants and
(v)
comment both locally and overseas that
our reluctance to come to an early decision makes us look a little weak.
4.
Add to this the fact that in the summer we were anticipating going to ExCo in July/August 1989 and now this
Two months slippage
has slipped to September/October.
in three months could mean that we shall
ust
shall get to ExCo until
1990.
5.
I do not know what the answer is. I agree we cannot abandon PADS/FINS. I agree that as presently defined these studies cannot be shortened. I suppose my
main concern is that I doubt the ability of the civi service to deal with such an enormous project in the way in which it has to be dealt with. This is not our fault. We are brought up to be meticulous and thorough not to execute major infrastructural projects on time and on budget. For that you need a different sort of animal.
6.
I think we need a man with vision from outside
the civil service to master mind the project now. He
今
needn't have an authority to support him, at least not at this stage. But he would guide us and push us forward. We need some dynamism in addition to all the lovely
reports, charts, documents, plans, maps etc which are being produced.
17.