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and specialist committees to enable the training

council to extend its activities into the commercial

and service sectors.

41 The volume of legislation in recent years and the

subsequent work of enforcement is involving substantial

recruitment of staff which must be trained and absorbed.

I believe that in this field the first priority now is

administrative consolidation.

42 The legislation introduced in recent years has been

proposed on its Hong Kong merits.

Our concern is what is

beneficial for Hong Kong, its workforce, and its economy

as a whole. Nevertheless it does no harm to keep

international comparisons in mind. These are favourable,

and your Government has made very good progress in

achieving its target of broad comparability with the

best among neighbouring Asian countries excluding Japan.