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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1992

NEW

SECONDLY, WE WILL HAVE TO INTRODUCE, IN 1995, NINE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES IN ORDER TO CONFORM WITH THE BASIC LAW. I PROPOSED, FOR THOSE NINE NEW CONSTITUENCIES, THAT WE SHOULD DESIGN THEM IN SUCH A WAY THAT REPRESENTATIVES OF EVERY ECONOMIC FUNCTION, IN OTHER WORDS, EVERYONE WHO IS IN WORK, SHOULD HAVE A VOTE TO REPRESENT THEIR PLACE OF WORK. NOW, I THINK IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DESIGN A FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCY TO REPRESENT PEOPLE OTHER THAN AN ECONOMIC INTEREST GROUP. I THINK THAT MIGHT PLACE ME OUTSIDE THE BASIC LAW, FOR A START. BUT I WILL CERTAINLY CONSIDER YOUR PROPOSAL.

IT MAY

BE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT ONE OF THE ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS AT PRESENT

REPRESENTED BY MORE THAN ONE CONSTITUENCY, BY MORE THAN ONE VOTE AMONG THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES, WOULD LIKE TO SURRENDER THEIR SEAT TO THE DISABLED.

QUESTION:

ΤΟ EXPRESS

THE

MR GOVERNOR, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY OUR VIEWS TO YOU DIRECTLY. AND I DO NOT AGREE WITH LADY WHO SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THE THREE-TIER COUNCILLORS OCCUPYING THE QUESTION TIME, BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, AND THE DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS, THEY REPRESENT AT LEAST 30% OF PUBLIC OPINION, SO THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK

UP.

IT WILL BE MORE IF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE COME HERE AND THEY TRY THEIR OWN OPINIONS.

TO VOICE I WENT TO THE THREE PREVIOUS PUBLIC FORUMS BUT I DIDN'T SEE ANY COUNCILLORS STANDING UP AND ASKING THEIR YOU, SO I THINK SHE'S WRONG HERE. SO MUCH FOR MY OPENING REMARKS AND QUESTION TO I WANT TO ASK ONE VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION.

UNMANAGEABLE

THE REASON

IN

SQUATTER

IN YOUR POLICY SPEECH, YOU SAID A HOUSING POLICY BUT I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE SQUATTER HUTS

LOT ABOUT YOUR THE URBAN AREA. THERE ARE NOW ABOUT 57,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN HUTS IN URBAN AREAS AND YOU SAID THAT YOU HOPE THAT ALL THESE SQUATTER AREAS CAN BE CLEARED IN MARCH 1996, BUT I THINK IT IS TOO WOULD

LATE. BE BETTER IF YOU CAN DO THIS BEFORE 1995. GOVERNOR, YOU HAVE COME TO VISIT THE WONG TAI SIN SQUATTER AREA, THE "PATTEN HURRICANE" HAD FAILED TO PUT OUT A FIRE WHICH GUTTED HOM TSUEN IT HAPPENED AFTER YOUR VISIT. AND THE FIRE BROKE OUT AN EMPTY HUT, SO YOU CAN SEE HOW DANGEROUS THE THERE WAS THE DANGEROUS SLOPE AND THERE WAS THE FIRE BREAKING OUT FROM ENVIRONMENT WAS. EMPTY HUTS, SO WOULD YOU CONSIDER ADVANCING YOUR CLEARANCE?

GOVERNOR:

IT

IS,

MR

BUT

ΤΑΙ IN

PROGRAMME OF

TO

FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED FOR COMING SOME OF THE PREVIOUS MEETINGS AS WELL AS TO THIS ONE, AND NEXT TIME, I PROMISE I'LL ASK YOU AT AN EARLIER MEETING.

AS

I QUITE UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF RE-SETTLING PEOPLE WHO AT PRESENT LIVE IN SQUATTING ACCOMMODATION, SOON AS POSSIBLE. AND YOU'RE ALSO RIGHT TO SAY THAT WE WANT TO SETTLE ALL URBAN SQUATTERS ON GOVERNMENT LAND BY MARCH 1996. YOU'LL BE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT SOMETIMES A PROBLEM PEOPLE

IN

RB- I THINK RE-SETTLING

TO MOVE. WITH A RATHER

BIGGER

LIVING IN THAT SORT OF ACCOMMODATION, IS THAT THEY DON'T

THE FIRST SQUATTING AREA THAT I WENT TO, I WAS PETITION IN WHICH SOME PEOPLE SAID THAT THEY WANTED THAN BE MOVED. SO WE DO HAVE TO SOMETIMES DEAL WITH SOCIAL PROBLEMS THAN YOU MIGHT ANTICIPATE IN RE-SETTLING, WE MUST PRESS AHEAD AS FAST AS POSSIBLE AND I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO FOR DRAWING THAT MATTER TO MY ATTENTION, EVEN THOUGH IT TOOK LONG TIME TO ASK THE QUESTION.

WANT PRESENTED

TO

STAY RATHER

BUT

YOU

YOU

A

/QUESTION:

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