1992 — Page 111

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MR. PAO PING-WING (in Cantonese):- Mr. Chairman, there were supplementary questions. We understand that after a specific period of time and at specified places, there were an increase in the volume of rubbish. Actually this is true and Mr. CHAN's observation is correct. But as Mr. CHAN has pointed out that this situation does not occur very often. We understand that there must be special measures to deal with special circumstances. We understand that the USD, after special festivals, will pay special efforts or make special arrangements to clean up black spots, e.g. the USD would deploy more staff. For example, a situation which was not mentioned by Mr. CHAN, after typhoon there would be all sorts of rubbish on the streets and under such circumstances, the USD has special measures to clean up the streets immediately. Of course, we do not want to have such rubbish lying around for a long time after a special circumstance. However, I think we must allow time for the USD to deploy staff and make arrangements to clean up the streets. Actually in the past such arrangements had been rather satisfactory. Of course, if we only clean up the mess after special festivals, this is a passive way to deal with the problem. I can tell Mr. CHAN that the Steering Committee has drafted a series of tactics. In the coming year, we will have a tactical publicity campaign, to pin-point certain festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the distribution of posters on the streets. Through such special publicity campaigns, we hope that we could educate the public. I can tell Members that the Steering Committee is well aware of the situation.

The second question is that whether we have made wrong targets in our education and publicity campaign. Actually in the first paragraph of my reply, I have explained a little bit that these are special circumstances. These are not normal circumstances. We aim at the general public when we publicize the message of Keep Hong Kong Clean. We hope that members of all age group would participate or pitch in keeping Hong Kong clean. But we have also some specified targets. Mr. CHAN would recall that after Sundays, in many particular areas in Central, because of the gatherings of many Filipino maids, we conduct some education program for the Filipino maids. And we are going to set up a community involvement subvention scheme. We have allocated $700,000 to subsidise local organisations including schools and MACs as well as community organisations to help promote the work of keeping Hong Kong clean. We feel that the above work would convince Mr. CHAN that the Steering Committee has actually paid attention to all points raised by him and we have actually made our efforts in keeping Hong Kong clean. Thank you.

MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT (in Cantonese):— Mr. Chairman, I quoted some special festivals just now, but when I talked about holidays, I did not mean special holidays, I mean just normal Saturday afternoons or Sundays. Actually on Monday morning there are a lot of rubbish lying on the beach or public places. Actually the situation is true after every weekend. So if this is common after every weekend, the effectiveness of the education on publicity of the Keep Hong Kong Clean does not seem to be that great. So I wonder if there is a need to review the work.

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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL Page 111 of 126 195 two MR. PAO PING-WING (in Cantonese):- Mr. Chairman, there were supplementary questions. We understand that after a specific period of time and at specified places, there were an increase in the volume of rubbish. Actually this is true and Mr. CHAN's observation is correct. But as Mr. CHAN has pointed out that this situation does not occur very often. We understand that there must be special measures to deal with special circumstances. We understand that the USD, after special festivals, will pay special efforts or make special arrangements to clean up black spots, e.g. the USD would deploy more staff. For example, a situation which was not mentioned by Mr. CHAN, after typhoon there would be all sorts of rubbish on the streets and under such circumstances, the USD has special measures to clean up the streets immediately. Of course, we do not want to have such rubbish lying around for a long time after a special circumstance. However, I think we must allow time for the USD to deploy staff and make arrangements to clean up the streets. Actually in the past such arrangements had been rather satisfactory. Of course, if we only clean up the mess after special festivals, this is a passive way to deal with the problem. I can tell Mr. CHAN that the Steering Committee has drafted a series of tactics. In the coming year, we will have a tactical publicity campaign, to pin-point certain festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the distribution of posters on the streets. Through such special publicity campaigns, we hope that we could educate the public. I can tell Members that the Steering Committee is well aware of the situation. The second question is that whether we have made wrong targets in our education and publicity campaign. Actually in the first paragraph of my reply, I have explained a little bit that these are special circumstances. These are not normal circumstances. We aim at the general public when we publicize the message of Keep Hong Kong Clean. We hope that members of all age group would participate or pitch in keeping Hong Kong clean. But we have also some specified targets. Mr. CHAN would recall that after Sundays, in many particular areas in Central, because of the gatherings of many Filipino maids, we conduct some education program for the Filipino maids. And we are going to set up a community involvement subvention scheme. We have allocated $700,000 to subsidise local organisations including schools and MACs as well as community organisations to help promote the work of keeping Hong Kong clean. We feel that the above work would convince Mr. CHAN that the Steering Committee has actually paid attention to all points raised by him and we have actually made our efforts in keeping Hong Kong clean. Thank you. MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT (in Cantonese):— Mr. Chairman, I quoted some special festivals just now, but when I talked about holidays, I did not mean special holidays, I mean just normal Saturday afternoons or Sundays. Actually on Monday morning there are a lot of rubbish lying on the beach or public places. Actually the situation is true after every weekend. So if this is common after every weekend, the effectiveness of the education on publicity of the Keep Hong Kong Clean does not seem to be that great. So I wonder if there is a need to review the work. Page 111 of 126

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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL Page 111 of 126 195 two MR. PAO PING-WING (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, there were supplementary questions. We understand that after a specific period of time and at specified places, there were an increase in the volume of rubbish. Actually this is true and Mr. CHAN's observation is correct. But as Mr. CHAN has pointed out that this situation does not occur very often. We understand that there must be special measures to deal with special circumstances. We understand that the USD, after special festivals, will pay special efforts or make special arrangements to clean up black spots, e.g. the USD would deploy more staff. For example, a situation which was not mentioned by Mr. CHAN, after typhoon there would be all sorts of rubbish on the streets and under such circumstances, the USD has special measures to clean up the streets immediately. Of course, we do not want to have such rubbish lying around for a long time after a special circumstance. However, I think we must allow time for the USD to deploy staff and make arrangements to clean up the streets. Actually in the past such arrangements had been rather satisfactory. Of course, if we only clean up the mess after special festivals, this is a passive way to deal with the problem. I can tell Mr. CHAN that the Steering Committee has drafted a series of tactics. In the coming year, we will have a tactical publicity campaign, to pin-point certain festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the distribution of posters on the streets. Through such special publicity campaigns, we hope that we could educate the public. I can tell Members that the Steering Committee is well aware of the situation. The second question is that whether we have made wrong targets in our education and publicity campaign. Actually in the first paragraph of my reply, I have explained a little bit that these are special circumstances. These are not normal circumstances. We aim at the general public when we publicize the message of Keep Hong Kong Clean. We hope that members of all age group would participate or pitch in keeping Hong Kong clean. But we have also some specified targets. Mr. CHAN would recall that after Sundays, in many particular areas in Central, because of the gatherings of many Filipino maids, we conduct some education program for the Filipino maids. And we are going to set up a community involvement subvention scheme. We have allocated $700,000 to subsidise local organisations including schools and MACs as well as community organisations to help promote the work of keeping Hong Kong clean. We feel that the above work would convince Mr. CHAN that the Steering Committee has actually paid attention to all points raised by him and we have actually made our efforts in keeping Hong Kong clean. Thank you. MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT (in Cantonese):—Mr. Chairman, I quoted some special festivals just now, but when I talked about holidays, I did not mean special holidays, I mean just normal Saturday afternoons or Sundays. Actually on Monday morning there are a lot of rubbish lying on the beach or public places. Actually the situation is true after every weekend. So if this is common after every weekend, the effectiveness of the education on publicity of the Keep Hong Kong Clean does not seem to be that great. So I wonder if there is a need to review the work. Page 111 of 126

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MR. PAO PING-WING (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman, there were supplementary questions. We understand that after a specific period of time and at specified places, there were an increase in the volume of rubbish. Actually this is true and Mr. CHAN's observation is correct. But as Mr. CHAN has pointed out that this situation does not occur very often. We understand that there must be special measures to deal with special circumstances. We understand that the USD, after special festivals, will pay special efforts or make special arrangements to clean up black spots, e.g. the USD would deploy more staff. For example, a situation which was not mentioned by Mr. CHAN, after typhoon there would be all sorts of rubbish on the streets and under such circumstances, the USD has special measures to clean up the streets immediately. Of course, we do not want to have such rubbish lying around for a long time after a special circumstance. However, I think we must allow time for the USD to deploy staff and make arrangements to clean up the streets. Actually in the past such arrangements had been rather satisfactory. Of course, if we only clean up the mess after special festivals, this is a passive way to deal with the problem. I can tell Mr. CHAN that the Steering Committee has drafted a series of tactics. In the coming year, we will have a tactical publicity campaign, to pin-point certain festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the distribution of posters on the streets. Through such special publicity campaigns, we hope that we could educate the public. I can tell Members that the Steering Committee is well aware of the situation.

MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT (in Cantonese):—Mr. Chairman, I quoted some special festivals just now, but when I talked about holidays, I did not mean special holidays, I mean just normal Saturday afternoons or Sundays. Actually on Monday morning there are a lot of rubbish lying on the beach or public places. Actually the situation is true after every weekend. So if this is common after every weekend, the effectiveness of the education on publicity of the Keep Hong Kong Clean does not seem to be that great. So I wonder if there is a need to review the work.

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