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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1990
IN MR LEE'S ADEQUATELY RENUMERATED.
OPINION, CIVIL
SERVANTS
WERE, IN GENERAL,
URGED
UNION LEADERS
WORKING
CLASS
AND
AS FAR AS THIS YEAR'S PAY INCREASE WAS CONCERNED, MR LEE CIVIL SERVANTS TO LISTEN CAREFULLY TO PUBLIC REACTION.
OF THE GENERAL OF THE VIEWS SHOULD BE AWARE MAN-IN-THE-STREET, HE NOTED.
WAS
SERVICE
THEIR HE POINTED OUT THAT CIVIL SERVANTS SHOULD REMEMBER THAT IT THEIR DUTY TO SERVE THE PUBLIC, AND ANY DISRUPTION IN COULD LEAD TO SOCIAL UNREST LOCALLY AND BAD PUBLICITY OVERSEAS. HE STRESSED THAT CIVIL SERVANTS HAD A MAJOR ROLE TO PLAY TIME WHEN HONG KONG WAS AT "THE CROSSROAD OF CHANGES IN THE MATRIX".
AT A POLITICAL
IS A STABLE CIVIL "WHAT WE NEED
|| HE SAID. CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE,
SERVICE
TO TAKE UP THE
REVIEW THE- GOVERNMENT SHOULD MR LEE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THE
AND ASK ITSELF SUCH SOUL-SEARCHING CIVIL SERVICE, SIZE OF THE
HOW CAN WE QUESTIONS AS: "IS THERE ANY FAT THAT CAN BE TRIMMED?
CAN PRODUCTIVITY CIVIL SERVICE? A MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE INCREASED?"
HAVE
BE
THE FINANCE
FOR
AS CHAIRMAN OF THE ESTABLISHMENT SUB-COMMITTEE OF COMMITTEE, MR LEE UNDERTOOK TO LOOK INTO THE MATTER WHEN REQUESTS ADDITIONAL POSTS COME UP IN THE FUTURE.
THIS
ΤΟ MESSAGE MR LEE CONCLUDED HIS SPEECH WITH
WHETHER WE SINK SERVICE: "WE ARE IN THE SAME BOAT TOGETHER.
AND THE TOGETHERNESS DEPENDS ON OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE FUTURE
TOGETHER, PROBLEMS FACE WE SHOULD OUR COMMUNITY. TOGETHER AND RESOLVE PROBLEMS TOGETHER.”
TACKLE
THE
CIVIL OR SWIM
OF
PROBLEMS
SAW REAL
IN DANGERS
BUDGET ENORMOUS PUBLIC SECTOR
ΤΟ FIND WAYS OF
PUBLIC SECTOR EXPENDITURE SHOULD BE CUT
* * *
SHE SAID TAM, MARIA THE HON PLANNING BASED ON EXPENDITURE IN VIEW OF THE EXPENDITURE ON INFRASTRUCTURE.
SHE BELIEVED THAT HONG KONG SHIFTING THE TAX BURDEN TO THE LOWER INCOME GROUPS.
BEGINNING WAS
ON THE APPROPRIATION
MISS COUNCIL.
SUCH DANGERS
TAM
BILL SAID
SPEAKING DURING THE MOTION DEBATE
THE LEGISLATIVE 1990 TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN PUBLIC SECTOR EXPENDITURE NEEDED TO BE TRIMMED DOWN WERE TO BE REDUCED.
IF
/TO ACHIEVE