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THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1993

SEE THAT EDUCATION. FOR

AUDITIONAL

QUESTION: GOOD MORNING FINANCIAL SECRETARY. I'M GLAD TO THERE ARE SOME SUBSTANTIAL PROPOSALS WITH REGARD TO

AND SCHOOLING EXAMPLE THERE WILL BE WHOLE DAY PRIMARY KINDERGARTEN FEE REMISSION CONCESSIONS, BUT STILL I AM DISAPPOINTED IN ANOTHER AREA BECAUSE ON THE EDUCATION FRONT THERE IS ONLY MENTION OF

OF PLACES

IMPROVEMENT IN BUT THERE IS NO MENTION

OUR ADDITIONAL

FOR EDUCATION SYSTEM AS TO HOW MUCH WILL BE ALLOCATED TO WHAT AREAS.

BEEN REVEALED EXAMPLE WITH REGARD TO SUBSIDY TO PARENTS, THAT'S NOT

REVIEW. BECAUSE AND THEN WITH REGARD TO STAFF PAY THERE IS ALSO NO NOW FOR AM TEACHERS, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FUND ALLOCATION TO SUBSIDY KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION, THAT IS NOT ENOUGH AND THAT INCLUDES

YES, BECAUSE TO PARENTS AS WELL AS STAFF PAY, IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN?

FOR THE FEE INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PLACES IF YOU ONLY

REMISSION NOW IF THERE IS, BECAUSE SCHEME, THAT IS NOT SUFFICIENT. PARENTS WHO STILL ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES.

CHAN: LISTEN

THERE ARE

NOW WE

CAN

MENTIONED

O.K. YOUR QUESTION HAS BEEN PUT QUITE CLEARLY. TO THE RESPONSE OF MR MACLEOD. IN FACT THAT'S BEEN IN THE BUDGET THIS TIME.

THINK

AN

ENORMOUS

AS

A RESULT UNDERSTAND IS GOING ON PLACE

THE OVER

YES

YOU. FS:

THANK

FIRST A GENERAL POINT, I AMOUNT HAS BEEN DONE AND IS BEING DONE IN EDUCATION. MAINLY OF A SERIES OF EDUCATION COMMISSION REPORTS. I CAN

EXACTLY THAT THERE

BE SOME CONFUSION ABOUT WHAT MAY BECAUSE

SO THERE'S

MUCH AND OF COURSE IT'S TAKING PERIOD OF THE NEXT FEW YEARS. WE PLAN THEREFORE TO PUBLISH A PAMPHLET CLEARLY WHAT HAS LEAFLET OR A

ON THIS SUBJECT TO TRY AND SET OUT HAPPENED IN THE EDUCATION FIELD IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, BECAUSE THERE'S SO

BUT TO DEAL WITH THE PARTICULAR QUESTION

KINDERGARTEN. MUCH. THE THING WHICH I ANNOUNCED IN THE BUDGET, THE NEW DEVELOPMENT WHICH I ANNOUNCED IN THE BUDGET WAS SIMPLY AN INCREASE IN THE KINDERGARTEN FEE REMISSION SCHEME SO THAT ANOTHER 32,000 FAMILIES WILL QUALIFY. NOT A FUNDAMENTAL REVIEW BUT IT'S AN INCREASE IN THAT CONCESSION.

QUESTION:

ON

IT'S

THERE'S

VERY

THESE GRANDIOSE TO NOTHING.

PERHAPS I CAN PICK UP ALONG THOSE SORT OF LINES, BREN SOME CRITICISM OR SUGGESTIONS THAT I'VE SEEN THAT IT'S ALL WELL ΤΟ BUILD HOSPITALS, TO BUILD SCHOOLS, TO HAVE PLANS BUT IF THE PERSONNEL ARE NOT AVAILABLE, THEY COME FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN BUILD A HOSPITAL AT NORTH BUT IF THE EASTERN HOSPITAL IS ANY GUIDE, YOU MAY NOT GET ENOUGH NURSES, HAVEN'T ADDRESSED THAT SORT OF PROBLEM WITHIN THE BUDGET.

EXAMPLE OF YET YOU

ADDRESS BUT

PART OF INCREASE

ALSO TRAIN THE

FS: NO, I DON'T THINK IT'S ACTUALLY FOR THE BUDGET TO

CERTAINLY FOR TEACHERS TAKE THE TWO EXAMPLES YOU'VE GIVEN. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE OF THOSE REPORTS I MENTIONED IS AN IN THE RESOURCES DEVOTED TO PRODUCING TEACHERS AND EXISTING TEACHERS. ON THE NURSES, THERE WAS OF COURSE A RECENT DEBATE THAT IN LEGCO ON THIS SUBJECT AND WE HAVE SAID THAT WE ARE REVIEWING WHOLE QUESTION OF THE SUPPLY OF NURSES. I THINK SOMETIMES THE PROBLEM IS A LITTLE EXAGGERATED BECAUSE OF COURSE WHEN WE BUILD A NEW HOSPITAL GO AND WE DON'T ACTUALLY INTEND TO OPEN THE ENTIRE HOSPITAL IN ONE

BEEN STAFF IT FULLY. IT'S INEVITABLY GOING TO BE PHASED, SO THERE'S SOME SUGGESTION THAT THE PHASING IS A RESULT OF STAFF SHORTAGE BUT THE PHASING WOULD BE THERE ANYWAY.

/QUESTION