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Ming Pao said that a responsible government with public opinion at heart would have released all relevant information months ago before the public had demanded it.

The HK Daily News said the statements by Conrad Lam and Martin Lee were nothing surprising in a debate on a subject that had attracted a wide range of views. The paper noted that heated exchanges were a normal thing in the British Parliament.

Nevertheless, the paper hoped that people should not become emotive in debates. It said the Daya Bay debate had provided an opportunity for practising something close to parliamentarian politics.

Wah Kiu Yat Po hoped that the Government would put to practice what it should do and what the FS had promised to do.

The Express said yesterday's debate was part of a process to re-establish Legco's public image.

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Sir David said the statement would contain detailed information on the safety and economic aspects of the project and would also take into consideration all the points that had been made at the Legco debate on Wednesday.

When asked to comment on remarks by some Legco members who might seek to invoke the Legco Powers and Privileges Ordinance to press the Government to release more information on the project, Sir David said: "The Financial Secretary has made it clear in his reply at Legco that he will be publishing a statement which would be as full as we possibly can make it. We should now wait for that statement to sppear."

A spokesman for the Joint Conference for the Shelving of the Daya Bay Project, Fung Chi-wood, told the press yesterday that if the Government did not make public the Lazard Brothers' report, the public would doubt the economic value of the project.

He said even if the Government could not disclose commercially confidential information of the report, it should at least aade public the report's conclusion.

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