WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1990
ACTING CS' SPEECH ON CHEONG'S AMENDED MOTION ON PADS
THE
FOLLOWING
SECRETARY,
THE
NOVEMBER
21,
IS THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE SPEECH BY
HON SIR PIERS JACOBS, IN THE LEGISLATIVE 1990, ON THE AMENDED MOTION MOVED BY CHEONG ON THE PORT AND AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY.
THE ACTING
COUNCIL
CHIEF ON
THE HON
STEPHEN
MEMBERS' RELATED
SIR, I SHALL BE AS BRIEF AS I CAN. I AM GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT FOR THE PORT AND AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PROJECTS. AS MANY MEMBERS HAVE INDICATED, THESE PROJECTS ARE VITAL TO THE FUTURE PROSPERITY OF HONG KONG. THE SUPPORT OF THIS COUNCIL
WELCOMED BY THE PROJECT, IN CLEAR TERMS, WILL, I AM SURE, BE COMMUNITY WHICH WE ALL SERVE.
SIR,
ΤΟ
THE
HAVE HAVE
YEAR,
AS MR JAMES TIEN AND MISS LEUNG WAI-TUNG AND OTHERS DEBATE INDICATED, MANY OF THE POINTS THAT WERE RAISED IN THIS ALREADY BEEN COVERED IN THE DEBATE HELD ON THE 31 OCTOBER THIS
ON THAT SO I DON'T INTEND TO REPEAT ALL THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE OCCASION, BUT THERE ARE SOME POINTS THAT WERE RAISED, IN PARTICULAR, MR KINGSLEY SIT'S SPEECH, THAT I FEEL I MUST COMMENT UPON BECAUSE
OR REMARKS
IF MADE,
LEFT
UNCHALLENGED, UNCONTRADICTED MISLEADING TO MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL AND TO THE PUBLIC.
THE
COULD BE
HISTORY, AS
SHELVED
IN FIRST AND WE
HAD
CHEK LAP KOK AS A PROJECT, OF COURSE HAS A LONG SOME MEMBERS COMMENTED. IT WAS, AS MEMBERS WILL REMEMBER, 1983. THERE WERE VERY CLEAR REASONS AS TO WHY IT WAS SHELVED. OF ALL, AT THAT TIME THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG WAS NOT CLEAR COULD NOT GO AHEAD WITH THE PROJECT UNTIL THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG BEEN
WAS IN
JOINT OF COURSE IT
SETTLED BY THE 1984,
BUT DECLARATION AND SO THE WAY WAS CLEAR FOR THE PROJECT TO GO AHEAD,
AND SO BY THAT TIME, THE BUDGET WAS NOT LOOKING PARTICULARLY STRONG
THE BUDGETARY THE PROJECT WAS TEMPORARILY SHELVED, ONLY BECAUSE OF
BECAUSE SITUATION AT
AND I REPEAT NOT THE TIME, NOT TECHNICAL OR OPERATIONAL FACTORS, AS ALLEGED BY MR SIT.
SETTLED.
OF
OTHER
REGARDING
THE BRIEF GIVEN TO THE CONSULTANTS FOR THE PADS STUDY, WHICH IS OF CHEK AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS, DID INDEED REFER TO THE NON-VIABILITY LAP KOK IN 1983, BUT IT IS DISTRESSING TO HEAR THAT MR SIT HAS CHOSEN
THIS
THE EXTENDING TO
RESERVATIONS COUNCIL BY MISLEAD
MAY I FINANCING TO INCLUDE THE ACTUAL SITING OF CHEK LAP KOK ITSELF.
RELEVANT FACTORS INTO THEREFORE REPEAT ONCE AGAIN THAT TAKING ALL
VIABLE ACCOUNT, CHEK LAP KOK IS INDEED THE MOST SUITABLE AND THE MOST SITE FOR OUR NEW AIRPORT.
SIR,
THE
IN
AS
AD
WE WILL
GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE OF PADS PROJECTS TO OUR FUTURE, GOVERNMENT FULLY APPRECIATES THE WISH AND THE NEED FOR THE PUBLIC
KEPT INFORMED. GENERAL, AND THIS COUNCIL IN PARTICULAR, TO BE MEMBERS ARE AWARE, WE ARE ALREADY IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE LEGCO
CONVENORSHIP. HOC GROUP FORMED UNDER MR STEPHEN CHEONG'S CONTINUE TO BRIEF THE AD HOC GROUP ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECTS,
ONLY LAST AS WR HAVE ALREADY BEEN DOING. OFFICIALS INVOLVED GAVE THE GROUP AN EXTENSIVE BRIEFING. THIS COUNCIL WILL NO DOUBT, IN FUTURE, CLOSELY SCRUTINISE THE OF THE PROJECTS AS SUBMISSIONS ARE MADE TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE APPROVAL.
ALL MONTH,
THE SENIOR MEMBERS OF FUNDING
FOR
/SIR, AS