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Well, the second issue: unemployment is really very high. When a lot of people are out of work, how are they supposed to pay for the houses they're buying? I think banks would be involved in this. I hope you can build more public housing in order to help the poorer strata of our society.
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Next issue: education and law and order, both are related. We have nine years education at the moment and every year when students finish Form 3, a lot of them are left behind. These are generally the 14 to 15 year olds, they are therefore unable to find work and nobody would employ them either. All these students can do is to loiter on our streets and would thus pose a threat to law and order in our society. I hope the Hong Kong Government can allocate one-tenth of the Reserves, as Dr Law Cheung-kwok said. Could you set aside the fund, not for adults but for vocational training type schools in order to train all these young people who have left Form 3?
In addition, could you also allocate funds -- Right, I'll make it short then. Could you allocate funds to build factories to create careers for those who are unemployed now?
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Right, the third issue: medical student health. Now you've cancelled the previous Student Health Service Scheme, I think this has put a lot of pressure on parents. I hope, Mr Patten, you could actually amalgamate the two schemes, i.e. the existing one and the new one. The new one, there will be a general medical check-up for schools. Could you not include this into the existing scheme? Thank you Mr Patten.
Governor: Can I just say that it is a problem if you ask a lot of questions because, I mean there are about four or five questions in that, but I'll try to answer them all. First of all on housing, and I just correct you: I only arrived in Hong Kong in 1992. It may seem like longer but from 1990-92 I was involved elsewhere.
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