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(In Cantonese);

Sir, the Financial Secretary has spent

to design a lot of time and effort designing a

balanced Budget. This deserves our con- gratulations. In the Budget, some tax concessions have been proposed, these are good news for the public. Today I would like to comment on the following items

jabout social welfare, education, and taxation and care of

the elderly

~ Care of the elderly

'irst of all, sonderning the care of the lc. elderly Among various social welfare

services, I am most concerned about services for the elderly. I am glad to see that in recent years, social welfare

take

services have taken up an increasing

portion of our resources.

In the next

year, the total expenditure on social

welfare services is $3.9 billion, that

per cent

In com-

is 6.3% of total expenditure.

per cent

parison with the 5.7% in 1987/88, it

elagor

is an increase. I understand that part

of the increase is due to improvements

in services for the elderly and for the disabled. Even though the existing services for the elderly, the focus is

but will still on community care we must not

overlook that we should provide instit- utional care for the elderly who require

the this service. For those who are getting

even older and weaker, when community care cannot accommodate such people, the only way to take care of them is to provide them with institutional care. Recently, the Social Welfare Advisory, Committee endorsed a proposal to raise the planning ratio of care and atten-