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DR. LAM (in Cantonese) : Sir, the public at large will, I

am sure, welcome the swift passage of this Bill. Because

it is only by completing the Tate's Cairn Tunnel that the

nightmare and the nuisance caused by the conjestion of the

can be

We should really pay tribute

Lion Rock Tunnel/resolved.

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to those have contributed

to the construction of the

Tate's Cairn Tunnel and that of course includes the

villagers of the Un Ling Village who had been there for

three hundred years. Their village and their

hall of two centuries history will henceforth disappear

ancestral

from the map.

Clause 5 of the Bill

Concerns

provides for the liability

that durin

afthe

to be borne by companies during the process of the

construction. Residents are concerned that in the process

of

construction, there

pollution and they are

excessive

will be excess environmental

worried that there will be an

accumulation of soil and stone in water ditches and drains

which might give rise to flooding in case of heavy

rainfall. There is no clear provision in the Bill

in case of loss incurred by the

concerning liability

residents.

states

work

The Bill provides that the construction must be

(must

completed within 30 months of the day of commencement.

It

is hoped that there will not be any delay.

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