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Second question, on the British Government's dealing with right of abode, I don't think the British Government has done as well as the Portuguese Government. For Civil Servants who have served many years, they don't have the right to live in Britain either. When you visit Britain next week, could you give them this message? Could you ask them to give the right of abode to Hong Kong civil servants who have worked for you for more than ten years?
Third issue. Traffic problem in Tuen Mun. Well the traffic situation there is really like traffic in the outlying islands. In fact, it's even worse. I understand that the railway will be extended to the Tuen Mun centre. I do think that improvement should be made on Castle Peak Road as well, in addition.
Thank you Mr Patten.
Governor: First of all, corruption. And you're quite right to say that low level corruption can be just as damaging as some of the bigger corruption scandals. Because, of course, low level corruption can very easily build up, and low level corruption, or what looks like low level corruption, can destroy the morale, the integrity, the effectiveness, of a part of our Public Service all too easily.
I think it's extremely important that people should go on reporting corruption at whatever level, and that's why I hope people will continue to drop into the Community Offices of the ICAC and report anything which they are suspicious about or worried about. And if you leave your name we'll get in touch with you. I'll certainly enquire about the points that you raised about some low level corruption being reported to the civil service and dealt with through departments rather than the ICAC. I haven't, to be honest, heard of any examples of that, but if it is happening I will find out and let you know. I think that the most important defence against corruption, the most important defence we have about corruption coming in from the margins of commercial and public life into the centre of our life where, alas, it was in the sixties and seventies - is the community's own determination not to let that happen. If we don't want to lose our reputation for integrity in Hong Kong for doing things in a decent and clean way, then we've got to stand up for those standards, both now and in the future. I'm sure that under the new Commissioner Against Corruption as under the present one, we'll be able to give a clear message to the whole community that corrupt practices in business or the public sector, will impoverish Hong Kong and mean that we live in a much less civilised or decent place.
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