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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1990

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1990-91 BUDGET LACKS PLANNING * * * * *

HON ALLEN LEE, THE SENIOR MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, THE

OF CONCRETE PROPOSALS IN THE SAID HE WAS DISAPPOINTED AT THE LACK

OF PROBLEMS

INFLATION, PUBLIC SECTOR 1990-91 BUDGET TO TACKLE THE EXPENDITURE AND LABOUR SHORTAGE.

THE BUDGET IN THE COUNCIL TODAY LEADING OFF THE DEBATE ON

AND WERE (WEDNESDAY), MR LEE NOTED THAT THOSE PROBLEMS STILL EXISTED IN FACT GETTING WORSE.

ALLOWED TO CONTINUE, HONG KONG HE WARNED THAT IF THEY WERE WOULD BE HEADING FOR A RECESSION IF NOT A DEPRESSION.

SINGLING

OUT INFLATION GOVERNMENT'S

AS THE NUMBER ONE

ΤΟ RESPONSIBILITY

ENEMY, MR EASE INFLATIONARY

LEE

**

SAID: "IT IS THE PRESSURE, PERHAPS DRASTIC ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED,

BUDGET AS ONE THAT LACKED HE CRITICISED THE ANTICIPATION. IT WAS ALSO EXPENDITURE DRIVEN, WHICH HE IS THE EXPENDITURE. NOW, WHICH AREAS OF TAXATION CAN WE TAKE CARE OF THE EXPENDITURE?"

AND

PLANNING MEANT: "HERE INCREASE TO

WELCOMED THE PROJECT,

MR LEE SAID: "WE ALL CITING THE NEW AIRPORT AS AN EXAMPLE,

THE QUESTION IS HOW TO FINANCE IT."

BUT

A

LOT

OF

QUESTIONS

HAVE

PRIVATE TO BE

HE POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS ALL VERY WELL TO TALK ABOUT

WOULD SECTOR PARTICIPATION, ANSWERED AND ADDRESSED,

WANT TYPE

THERE

THE

FROM

IN

THIS

FOR EXAMPLE, HE SAID: "THE PUBLIC AND THE BUSINESS CIRCLE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT PORTION OF THE CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND WHAT

IS THE PROJECT COMMERCIALLY OF SERVICES WILL BE PRIVATISED AND HOW? VIABLE? WHAT WILL BE THE PLANNED PUBLIC SECTOR EXPENDITURE? IF

WILL GOVERNMENT GO AHEAD IS NO PRIVATE SECTOR INTEREST,

MONEY COME WHERE WILL THE PROJECT OUT OF NECESSITY? CASE?"

WITH

IF SUCH INFORMATION WAS ALREADY AVAILABLE, THE PUBLIC OUGHT KNOW ABOUT IT, HE STRESSED.

то

MR LEE EXPRESSED TURNING TO THE SUBJECT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE,

GATHERINGS, SIT-INS, HUNGER STRIKES GRAVE CONCERN ABOUT THE RECENT

OF VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, AND MARCHES INVOLVING THE STAFF DEMANDING SALARY INCREASES AND BETTER BENEFITS.

WHILST APPRECIATING CIVIL SERVANTS' ANXIETIES AND UNEASE THE FUTURE, MR LEE SAID: "MONEY CANNOT BUY PEACE OF MIND.'

TE

ABOUT

HE SAID: "THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT CAN DO ONLY SO WOULD BE WRONG FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY TO USE MONEY TO CIVIL SERVICE. AS FAR AS THE FUTURE IS CONCERNED, MATTER THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT MUST ADDRESS.

MUCH,

IT IS A

AND IT BUY THE SERIOUS

/IN MR