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And also, now on Employees Retraining Programme. I have joined that for over a year and during that time I have also approached the Labour Department for assistance but then I have not been successful. I hope there could be assistance.
Governor: If you leave one of my officials your name and address, we will get in touch with the Employment Department and see whether we can provide more service to you, see if we can help you in any way get into employment. We are pretty successful at getting people who have been through the Employees Retraining Board into jobs but we will in your case Perhaps somebody sitting next to you could just
tell you afterwards what I have said.
Secondly on THAS - I don't want to go all through the answer that I gave earlier - we didn't actually promise in 1992-93 to get rid of all THAS, though I would have like to have done so. The two promises that we made then, we have kept: on offers of rehousing and on getting rid of the older THAS. And we will, by the end of 1997, have got rid of 43 out of 55. I very much hope that we can get rid of the others as quickly as possible. And I can promise you there is a problem with recent immigrants. The last THA I went to I met three families who were recent immigrant families and I think you will find, if you go round a lot of THAs yourself, that there are quite a lot of people there who are recent immigrants.
We do of course have plans to improve the quality of the remaining THAS and we are trying to provide temporary accommodation in some of our older rental blocks, giving them a bit of refurbishment and using them for those who are in interim housing. I hope that will mean that there is a bit of an improvement in the quality of interim housing which I wholly accept does not provide a long term decent solution for the families who live in those areas.
Now last, and you will have to be very brief, otherwise I will have to go - my supper is getting cold.
Question (in Chinese): Thank you, Mr Governor, for allowing me to speak for just five minutes.
Governor: No, no, no, not five minutes. It is one brief question, not five minutes. One brief question, otherwise I will just have to go.
Question (in Chinese): (personal comments on the Governor)
Governor: Okay.
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