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I undertake that whether I am happy, sad, sick or painful, I will still love the Council wholeheartedly, discharge my duty to the utmost and serve the Community unswervingly. Finally, I would like to conclude my speech by quoting a Ci poem composed by YAN Shu:
"A new Ci poem, a glass of wine;
Weather and pavilion of the past time,
Bending in the West, when will the setting sun climb?
Flowers fall off, do what one may;
Swallows return, no strangers they;
Lingering on the fragrant path of a little garden, I alone stay.” Mr. Chairman, with these remarks, I support the motion.
MR. PAO PING-WING (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman,
Both Mr. CHAN Yuek-sut and I have been serving on the Council since 1983. Just now Mr. CHAN has overtly expressed his discontent. Though I share the same sentiment with him, I am not going to adopt his comparatively pessimistic approach in presenting my viewpoints at this Annual Conventional Debate.
Today is an extraordinary day. Maybe it is the last Annual Conventional Debate of the Urban Council. Maybe it is not. Indeed, just now Mr. Chan has put forward various views, reasons and facts. I am not saying that all these are facts. However, in regard to the review of district organizations, the Government really did not offer any convincing reasons to support its biased decision. This is extremely disappointing. The Government mainly pointed out that the existing structure, which consisted of various councils, had resulted in confusion and incompatibility of policy, as well as waste of resources.
As you may recall, Mr. Chairman, the reasons put forward by the Government today are exactly those we brought up at the Council's meeting fifteen years ago. Remember that fifteen years ago when we were standing here, we were stating exactly the same reasons and scenario for not supporting the Government's proposal to set up the Regional Council at that time. The argument we put forward at that moment was that such consequence would result if the Government set up two Municipal Councils. Fifteen years had since elapsed and now the Government is trying to prove what the Council stated fifteen years ago is right. This is not simply the misfortune of the public. The wrong decision made by the Hong Kong Government at that time had deprived the public of the best municipal services in the past fifteen years.
In the review of district organizations, the Government has proposed setting up new structures to substitute the present Municipal Councils after their dissolution. By retrieving the committee minutes of the former Urban Council
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I undertake that whether I am happy, sad, sick or painful, I will still love the Council wholeheartedly, discharge my duty to the utmost and serve the Community unswervingly. Finally, I would like to conclude my speech by quoting a Ci poem composed by YAN Shu:
"A new Ci poem, a glass of wine;
Weather and pavilion of the past time,
Bending in the West, when will the setting sun climb?
Flowers fall off, do what one may;
Swallows return, no strangers they;
Lingering on the fragrant path of a little garden, I alone stay.” Mr. Chairman, with these remarks, I support the motion.
MR. PAO PING-WING (in Cantonese):-Mr. Chairman,
Both Mr. CHAN Yuek-sut and I have been serving on the Council since 1983. Just now Mr. CHAN has overtly expressed his discontent. Though I share the same sentiment with him, I am not going to adopt his comparatively pessimistic approach in presenting my viewpoints at this Annual Conventional Debate.
Today is an extraordinary day. Maybe it is the last Annual Conventional Debate of the Urban Council. Maybe it is not. Indeed, just now Mr. Chan has put forward various views, reasons and facts. I am not saying that all these are facts. However, in regard to the review of district organizations, the Government really did not offer any convincing reasons to support its biased decision. This is extremely disappointing. The Government mainly pointed out that the existing structure, which consisted of various councils, had resulted in confusion and incompatibility of policy, as well as waste of resources.
As you may recall, Mr. Chairman, the reasons put forward by the Government today are exactly those we brought up at the Council's meeting fifteen years ago. Remember that fifteen years ago when we were standing here, we were stating exactly the same reasons and scenario for not supporting the Government's proposal to set up the Regional Council at that time. The argument we put forward at that moment was that such consequence would result if the Government set up two Municipal Councils. Fifteen years had since clapsed and now the Government is trying to prove what the Council stated fifteen years ago is right. This is not simply the misfortune of the public. The wrong decision made by the Hong Kong Government at that time had deprived the public of the best municipal services in the past fifteen years.
In the review of district organizations, the Government has proposed setting up new structures to substitute the present Municipal Councils after their dissolution. By retrieving the committee minutes of the former Urban Council
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