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debate has changed.
Members of this Council have
now had an opportunity to see how the Council and
From the outside, the system works from the inside.
their constituents and Members of public at large. have had just over a year and it is only just over
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a year to see how a larger and more diverse Council has fulfilled its role of responding to the many complex issues which confront this lively, energetic and questioning community of ours.
Some Members would like to draw you out
However,
First,
And
Sir, on the subject of direct elections. as has been pointed out many times, now is not (not) the moment for the Government to comment on the direction of future constitutional and related changes; these are matters for the 1987 Review. there are good reasons for this attitude. there is the speed and distance we have travelled in the past few years, and particularly in the last year; second, there is the importance of the issues to be addressed and the need to find the right solutions to them; and third, public discussion and public opinion have clearly not yet reached a position where acceptable common ground is easily perceived. If there is a common view it is this : be careful, be gradual and for the sake of Hong Kong, get it right! Now is the time for thought, for opinions to be expressed and analysed and thereafter for proposals to be developed. Members' speeches are part of this process and themselves form part of the material and background for the drafting of the Green Paper to be published in April or May next year. But I cannot stress strongly enough the importance at this time, of reasoned,
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