WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1988
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FUNDS APPROVED FOR BOAT PEOPLE TASKS
* * * * *
FINANCIAL
AND
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE TODAY (WEDNESDAY) APPROVED THE IMPLICATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR THE RECEPTION
NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES, AND ACCOMMODATION OF THE INCREASED ALSO FOR IMPLEMENTING THE CHANGE IN POLICY UNDER WHICH ALL BOAT PEOPLE ARE BEING SCREENED ON ARRIVAL TO DETERMINE THEIR STATUS,
VIETNAMESE
ASSESSED ON A FULL YEAR THE OVERALL FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS,
ARE BASIS,
ESTIMATED
SOME
IN AT
NON-RECURRENT $127 MILLION EXPENDITURE AND SOME $269 MILLION IN RECURRENT EXPENDITURE A YEAR.
$166
IN CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND OF THIS TOTAL, $88 MILLION
NEEDED FOR THE ACCOMMODATION, MILLION IN RECURRENT EXPENDITURE ARE CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ENORMOUSLY INCREASED NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE
THE BEFORE
CHANGE OF POLICY HAD ARRIVED
PLUS ANY REFUGEES WHO
DETERMINED TO BE REFUGEES AS A VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE WHO MAY BE RESULT OF THE SCREENING PROCESS.
NEARLY $41 MILLION OF THE RECURRENT EXPENDITURE IS FROM THE UNHCR UNDER CURRENT AGREED ARRANGEMENTS.
RECOVERABLE
THE
IN CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND THE REMAINDER, ABOUT $39 MILLION $103 MILLION IN RECURRENT EXPENDITURE, IS NEEDED FOR IMPLEMENTING NEW SCREENING AND DETENTION POLICY.
GREEN
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCREENING THIS INCLUDES PROVISIONS FOR PROCEDURES, DETENTION CENTRES, AND THE UPGRADING OF SECURITY AT ISLAND RECEPTION CENTRE.
THE UNHCR TO INCREASE NEGOTIATIONS ARE UNDERWAY TO PERSUADE
AS A ITS SUBSIDY AND TO REVISE ITS APPARENT APPROACH THAT HONG KONG,
PROSPEROUS TERRITORY, RELATIVELY
SUBSIDY.
THE OVERALL FINANCIAL
SHOULD
IMPLICATIONS
RECEIVE RELATIVELY
LESS
APPROVED TODAY INCLUDE NON-DIRECTORATE POSTS BOTH FOR THE INCREASED NUMBER OF ALSO FOR IMPLEMENTING THE
PROVISION FOR THE CREATION OF 1,126 MAINTAINING SERVICES AND ACCOMMODATION FOR
AND HERE. VIETNAMESE REFUGEES CHANGE IN POLICY.
ALREADY
712 POSTS ARK OF THIS TOTAL,
NEEDED FOR THE CORRECTIONAL
191 FOR THE SERVICES DEPARTMENT, 207 FOR THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT,
AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT, FOUR POLICE, NINE FOR THE MEDICAL SECURITY BRANCII, AND THREE FOR THE AUXILIARY MEDICAL SERVICES.
FOR
THE
THE CHANGF
POLICY
OF
OF THESE ADDITIONAL POSTS, 664 ARE NEEDED FOR SERVICES FOR INCREASED NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES WHO ARRIVED BEFORE THE
FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NEW OF POLICY, AND 462 ARE NEEDED
SCREENING AND DETENTION PENDING REPATRIATION.
THERE MAY