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Creating more job opportunities is a bigger challenge. We're trying to give a lead in government. Some have done particularly well. The Hospital Authority and the Housing Department, for example. We've challenged the private sector to join hands with us in this. Some firms are doing so. And doing so with conviction and success. Some - but not enough. I hope we can persuade more employers to do more themselves, to do everyone a favour.
Why do I say that?
We often say that Hong Kong doesn't have any resources to speak of except its people. And employers often grumble that there just aren't enough people, not So what sort of sense does it make to turn our enough good people, to go round. backs on so many of those who, because of a disability, sometimes need a bit of assistance in order to get the opportunity of contributing? Contributing their skills, their loyalty, their hard work.
Hong Kong has an obligation to help those who face life with a disability, and when we do that, when we hold out a hand, we help Hong Kong to be more prosperous as well as more decent.
Think of the way that standards have soared in the last few years. Not for all, Standards in education with but for most. Standards in housing, and health care. more young people than we could have ever dreamed possible a decade ago going to our universities today. Standards in our daily living more food, more shopping, more travel, more money in the bank. Wider horizons and fuller days.
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I think it's time to give our friends with a disability in Hong Kong a better and fairer deal too. Time to give them a happier today and a brighter tomorrow. It's their turn. So let's move over a bit and give them the chance they deserve.
End/Sunday, May 7, 1995
Transcript of Financial Secretary's remarks
Following are the remarks made by the Financial Secretary, Sir Hamish Macleod, after opening the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics today (Sunday):
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