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A 07/08-13
Legislative Council
Agenda
Wednesday 9 January 2008 at 11:00 am
I. Tabling of Papers
| Subsidiary Legislation / Instruments | L.N. No.
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| 1. | Tsing Sha Control Area (Tolls, Fees and Charges) Regulation | 237/2007
| | 2. | Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Shipowners Liability) (Rate of Interest) (Amendment) Order 2007 | 242/2007
| | 3. | Public Health and Municipal Services (Setting Aside Places for Use as Public Pleasure Grounds) (No. 3) Order 2007 | 1/2008
| | 4. | Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Amendment of Fourth Schedule) (No. 3) Order 2007 | 2/2008
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Other Paper
Report of the Bills Committee on Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (Amendment) Bill 2007
(to be presented by Hon CHAN Kam-lam, Chairman of the Bills Committee)
II. Questions
1. Hon WONG Kwok-hing to ask: (Translation)
It has been reported that the conclusions of the studies of the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization point out that overnight work is probably carcinogenic to humans. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether:
| (a) | it will draw up health guidelines to provide guidance on overnight shiftwork systems as well as the working hours and rest breaks for overnight work;
| | (b) | it will, on the principle that the income of the staff concerned will not be affected, implement a three-shift system for all posts of the Government and its out-sourced services that involve shiftwork, so as to shorten the time of overnight work for such posts; and
| | (c) | it will specify cancers triggered by overnight work as occupational diseases under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Labour and Welfare
2. Dr Hon YEUNG Sum to ask: (Translation)
On 15 September 2007, the Government declared King Yin Lei, a traditional Chinese-style mansion, and its garden as a proposed monument. It is making an assessment on how the mansion is to be restored and studying the appropriate options to preserve the mansion. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | of the progress and outcome of the assessment on the damage done to the mansion and how it is to be restored, and when the assessment report will be published;
| | (b) | whether it has considered acquiring, by purchase, transfer of plot ratio, land exchange or other means, the title of the mansion and the land concerned, so as to preserve the mansion permanently, and if it has discussed the matter with the owner or his representatives; if such consideration has been made and discussion has been held, of the preliminary result; and
| | (c) | whether it will consider conducting public consultation and inviting suggestions from non-government organizations on how to permanently preserve and revitalize King Yin Lei, thereby enhancing public understanding of the mansion and its related history and culture?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Development
3. Hon TSANG Yok-sing to ask: (Translation)
Will the Government inform this Council whether it knows:
| (a) | the number of cases in the past three years in which employees lodged claims at the Labour Tribunal ("LT") to recover outstanding wages; among them, the respective numbers of cases in which the employees' claims were successful and unsuccessful, as well as the average time taken from the date of filing to conclusion in such cases;
| | (b) | among the successful cases referred to in (a), the average percentage of the amounts of compensation awarded by LT to the employees concerned in the amounts they claimed, and the average percentage of the amounts of money ultimately received by such employees in the amounts awarded; and
| | (c) | apart from implementing the measures which have been accepted by the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal for solving problems in connection with the enforcement of LT's awards, how the relevant authorities assist the employees who have lodged and succeeded in their claims to recover outstanding wages in recovering the amounts awarded, and whether they have plans to review the relevant policies?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Labour and Welfare
4. Hon Daniel LAM Wai-keung to ask: (Translation)
The Government allocated $4 billion in the nineties to implement projects under the Rural Planning and Improvement Strategy, including river training and local environment beautification projects, so as to improve the living environment for the residents in the New Territories. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether, given its current strong financial position, the Government will allocate fresh funds to implement strategic projects to improve the rural environment, in order to address the aspirations of the residents in the New Territories; if it will, whether it will work with the Heung Yee Kuk and various rural committees in drawing up the specific arrangements for implementing the projects concerned; if it will not allocate funds to implement the projects concerned, of the reasons for that, and the alternative plans to improve the living environment for the residents in the rural areas?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Home Affairs
5. Hon TAM Yiu-chung to ask: (Translation)
Some front-line staff of the disciplined services have told me that the number of non-ethnic Chinese illegal entrants ("IEs") intercepted by them has been on the rise in recent years. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of:
| (a) | the number of non-ethnic Chinese IEs intercepted in each of the past three years;
| | (b) | the usual means through which these IEs entered the territory illegally; and
| | (c) | the plans to step up the interception of IEs in order to safeguard the interests of Hong Kong?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Security
6. Hon WONG Yung-kan to ask: (Translation)
It has been reported that some traders in markets openly sell poisonous puffer fish to members of the public for consumption, endangering the health of the public. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of:
| (a) | the number of cases in each of the past three years in which people were poisoned after consuming puffer fish, whether there were any fatal cases among them, and whether it is aware of the channels through which the puffer fish was obtained;
| | (b) | the number and the details of prosecutions instituted in the past three years against people selling puffer fish; and
| | (c) | the measures it will adopt to prevent traders from selling puffer fish and remind members of the public not to consume puffer fish recklessly, and whether it will follow the overseas practice of stipulating by legislation that only restaurants with special permits are allowed to sell puffer fish cooked by qualified chefs; if such legislation will not be enacted, of the reasons for that?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Food and Health
*7. Dr Hon YEUNG Sum to ask: (Translation)
Regarding education and vocational training for the ethnic minorities, will the Government inform this Council of the following in the past 10 years:
| (a) | the respective annual numbers of ethnic minority students studying at each level from Primary One to Secondary Four; and
| | (b) | the annual number of the ethnic minorities enrolled in courses offered by the Vocational Training Council, broken down by course type?
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| Public Officer to reply | : | Secretary for the Civil Service
(in the absence of Secretary for Education) |
*8. Hon James TO to ask: (Translation)
In reply to a question on 30 May 2007 raised by a Member of this Council concerning Obscene Articles Tribunal adjudicators, the then Secretary for Home Affairs ("SHA") said that "in the event that a Tribunal adjudicator has made public comments on matters before the Tribunal, the Judiciary's position is that the adjudicator concerned will be disqualified from sitting on the Tribunal in the matter in question. In this context, the appropriate test is that an adjudicator is disqualified from sitting if the circumstances are such as would lead a reasonable, fair-minded and well-informed observer to conclude that there is a real possibility that the adjudicator would be biased. Whether the adjudicator concerned will be disqualified from sitting in a similar case in the future will have to be considered by applying this test to the circumstances of the case in question". SHA also said that "the Judiciary will ensure that the adjudicators understand the test and that the test is applied". In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether it knows:
| (a) | how the Judiciary monitors whether the 320 adjudicators have made public comments on matters before the Tribunal; and whether any adjudicator has been disqualified from sitting on the Tribunal since 30 May 2007 as a result of such acts; if so, of the names of such adjudicators and details of their acts;
| | (b) | whether, in drawing adjudicators to sit on the Tribunal, the Judiciary has, since 30 May 2007, taken into consideration if the adjudicators concerned had made public comments on matters before the Tribunal in the past, or if they had been disqualified from sitting on the Tribunal; and
| | (c) | how the Judiciary ensures that the adjudicators understand the above test and know that the test is applied, and whether the Judiciary has issued written or verbal notices to all adjudicators in this regard; if the Judiciary has issued such notices, of the date of issuance; if not, the reasons for that?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
*9. Hon Albert HO to ask: (Translation)
After the reorganization of the policy bureaux of the Government Secretariat on 1 July 2007, the work on human rights, which was originally under the portfolio of the Home Affairs Bureau ("HAB"), has been transferred to the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, while civic education remains the responsibility of HAB. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | of the policy bureau currently responsible for the work on human rights education;
| | (b) | of the policy bureau currently providing support services to the Human Rights Education Working Group ("Working Group") under the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education, the reasons why the Working Group has not convened any meeting for over nine months since March 2007 and the date of its next meeting; and
| | (c) | given that the Working Group had commissioned the University of Hong Kong through HAB to conduct a survey on human rights awareness among the people of Hong Kong last year and the design of the survey questionnaire was completed as early as March 2007, of the policy bureau currently responsible for following up the survey, whether the Working Group will be advised of the contents of the questionnaire, and when the survey will be commenced and completed?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Home Affairs
*10. Hon LEUNG Yiu-chung to ask: (Translation)
Will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | in the past two years, of the number of prosecutions instituted by the authorities against the offence of selling tobacco products to persons under the age of 18, and the number of inspections conducted by the Tobacco Control Office ("TCO") of the Health Department to combat such an offence; how such figures compare with those of the previous two years; if the relevant figures are different, of the reasons for that; and
| | (b) | whether it will consider increasing the manpower of TCO in order to step up the efforts to combat the above offence; if it will, of the details; if not, the reasons for that?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Food and Health
*11. Hon Fred LI to ask: (Translation)
I have learnt that the waiting time for new cases in some specialist out-patient clinics at the United Christian Hospital ("UCH") is the longest among the hospitals under the Hospital Authority ("HA"), and the rehabilitation services that UCH provides are also in acute shortage. As a result, each day about 200 patients (most of them being elderly people) in the district have to attend the Kowloon Hospital for its services on a long-term basis, and this arrangement is causing much inconvenience to such patients and their family members. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether:
| (a) | it knows if HA has drawn up contingency measures to improve the above situation expeditiously; if contingency measures have been drawn up, of the details; if not, the reasons for that; and
| | (b) | it has plans to allocate funds to HA for implementing a redevelopment project for UCH, so as to fully resolve the long-standing problem of inadequate medical services in its service area; if it has plans, of the details; if not, the reasons for that?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Food and Health
*12. Hon TAM Heung-man to ask: (Translation)
A few accountants who are teaching in tertiary institutions have recently told me that there is a very serious shortage of accounting professionals in Hong Kong in recent years. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | whether it will, as a substantial fiscal surplus is forecast to be recorded for this financial year, consider providing more subsidies to various tertiary institutions to increase the places for accounting, financial and monetary studies; if it will, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;
| | (b) | given that the shortage of accounting technicians have forced accountants to take up some of the work originally handled by accounting technicians, whether it will consider allocating more resources or adopting other policies to provide more training places for accounting technicians; if it will, of the specific policies; if not, the reasons for that; and
| | (c) | whether it will relax the relevant immigration policies to facilitate more overseas accountants coming to Hong Kong and more overseas Hong Kong accountants returning to Hong Kong to engage in the accounting business; if it will, of the specific policies?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury
*13. Hon LAU Kong-wah to ask: (Translation)
The Copyright (Amendment) Ordinance 2007, enacted in June last year by this Council, introduces rental right provisions under which copyright owners of films and comic books are empowered to levy copyright royalties on the rental business of video discs and comic books. The film and comic book industries are currently negotiating with rental shops of such articles on the introduction of rental licensing schemes and, depending on the progress of the negotiation, the authorities will determine a date for the relevant provisions to come into operation. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | of the respective current numbers of video disc and comic book rental shops in the territory and, among these shops, the respective percentages of those which are chain stores;
| | (b) | whether it knows the details of the rental licensing schemes proposed by the film and comic book industries (such as how far the selling price of the rental version will exceed that of the retail version for the same video disc or comic book), and the number of rental shops taking part in the negotiation;
| | (c) | how it will ensure small rental shops can still survive after the relevant provisions have come into operation and safeguard the market from being monopolized by rental chains; and
| | (d) | given that the operators of some small rental shops have just entered into new tenancy agreements with their landlords, whether it will consider deferring the relevant provisions coming into operation to allow these operators a longer transitional period to make suitable arrangements?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
*14. Hon CHOY So-yuk to ask: (Translation)
It has been reported that as the reorganization of policy bureaux of the Government Secretariat on 1st July last year has led to transfer of functions among bureaux, the Environment Bureau has recently undertaken major office removal and renovation works, with an estimated cost of over 10 million dollars. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of the office removal or renovation works undertaken by each policy bureau and the departments under its purview as a result of the above-mentioned reorganization, as well as the following details of these works:
| (a) | the respective amounts of expenditure on removal and renovation works;
| | (b) | the respective amounts of various types of construction waste and electronic waste generated;
| | (c) | the measures taken by the authorities concerned to recover such waste; and
| | (d) | the respective amounts of various types of waste disposed of eventually?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for the Environment
*15. Hon LEE Wing-tat to ask: (Translation)
The Housing Authority is currently providing a mortgage default guarantee in respect of Home Ownership Scheme ("HOS") flats covering a period of 15, 20 or 25 years ("the default guarantee period"), and includes in the title documents of the flats concerned a restriction that the overall repayment period for the total number of instalments payable under the fresh mortgage together with those already paid under the previous and existing mortgages shall not exceed the default guarantee period. Except those in respect of which premium has been paid, all HOS flats are subject to such a restriction. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | of the respective names of HOS estates, together with the respective total numbers of flats involved, in respect of which the default guarantee period has expired, will expire in one year or more but less than 10 years, or will expire in 10 years or more but less than 15 years;
| | (b) | due to the above restriction, buyers of second-hand HOS flats with the default guarantee period already expired or soon to expire often can only secure from financial institutions mortgage loans which have to be repaid in full within several years, and some may even fail to secure any mortgage loan, whether, in the past three years, the authorities have discussed the matter with the relevant financial institutions with a view to helping prospective flat owners to secure mortgage loans with longer repayment periods; if so, of the results of such discussions;
| | (c) | whether the authorities had removed the restriction imposed on the repayment period under fresh mortgages at the time of ownership transfer of second-hand HOS flats in the past three years; if so, of the number of such cases, as well as the number of financial institutions which offered mortgage loans to the new flat owners; and
| | (d) | whether the authorities will consider completely removing the restriction imposed on the repayment period under fresh mortgages at the time of ownership transfer of second-hand HOS flats, so that financial institutions will only need to vet and approve mortgage loan applications in respect of such flats in accordance with commercial principles?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Transport and Housing
*16. Hon WONG Ting-kwong to ask: (Translation)
The findings of a survey conducted by the Census and Statistics Department revealed that the total amount of business receipts received from selling goods, services or information through electronic means in 2006 was estimated at HK$64.9 billion, representing a substantial increase of 47.7% over the corresponding figure in 2005. Moreover, in 2007, about 18% of the business establishments had web pages or web sites, and about 60% of the establishments had conducted electronic business activities in the 12 months before enumeration. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | of the main business sectors to which those surveyed establishments with web pages or web sites belong; and
| | (b) | as it has been reported that the Government will sponsor the commercial sector to set up web sites, of the details of the sponsorship scheme concerned?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
*17. Hon Albert CHAN to ask: (Translation)
Recently, some members of the public have reflected to me that quite a number of private open barbeque sites often cause noise nuisance to residents nearby. Despite repeated complaints lodged by the residents to the Police, the situation has not improved. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | of the number of such complaints received in each of the past three years;
| | (b) | of the respective numbers of warnings issued to and prosecutions instituted against the operators or proprietors concerned because of noise nuisance from open barbeque sites in each of the past three years; and
| | (c) | whether it will step up law enforcement actions to curb open barbeque sites causing noise nuisance to residents nearby; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for the Environment
*18. Hon Emily LAU to ask: (Translation)
Regarding the 2003 and 2007 District Council elections, the 2004 Legislative Council ("LegCo") general election and the 2007 LegCo by-election for the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency ("GC"), will the Executive Authorities inform this Council:
| (a) | in respect of each of the elections, of the number of electors registered in the then relevant final register of GCs ("FR") who had changed their principal residential address since the publication of the preceding FR;
| | (b) | in respect of each constituency for each of the elections, of the number of electors transferred to that constituency due to a change of their principal residential address;
| | (c) | in respect of each of the elections, of the respective numbers of electors who had informed the relevant authorities that it was only when they reached the ballot paper issuing desk in the polling station did they find that:
| | (i) | their names were missing from the part of the FR relating to that polling station, and
| | (ii) | the particulars registered in respect of their names in the FR had been crossed out (indicating that the electors concerned had been issued with ballot papers earlier),
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| | (d) | of the causes of the problems mentioned in (c), and how the relevant authorities have addressed such problems?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs
*19. Dr Hon David LI to ask:
Will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | of the current number of private domestic properties for which rates are chargeable and, among them, the number of those that have been let; and
| | (b) | whether it knows the number of existing tenants of private domestic properties who have not benefited from the rates concession granted by the Government for the 2007-2008 financial year because they are not liable to pay rates under the tenancy agreements concerned?
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Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury
*20. Hon SIN Chung-kai to ask: (Translation)
Established in 2000 with the support of the Quality Education Fund, the Hong Kong Education City ("EdCity"), with its Chinese name subsequently changed, was incorporated in 2002 to become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Government. The EdCity web site provides teachers with teaching resources to support their professional development. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
| (a) | whether it has set up a mechanism to ensure that the teaching resources developed by EdCity can cater for the teaching work of teachers; if it has, of its details; if not, the reasons for that;
| | (b) | whether it has assessed teachers' utilization of the teaching resources on the EdCity web site; if it has, of the details;
| | (c) | whether it has, in the light of the growing popularity of the Web 2.0 concept in recent years, assessed the situation of teachers sharing resources and teaching experience through the EdCity web site; if it has, of the details; and
| | (d) | whether it has formulated measures to encourage teachers to become more proactive in sharing teaching experience through the EdCity web site?
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| Public Officer to reply | : | Secretary for the Civil Service
(in the absence of Secretary for Education) |
*For written reply.
III. Bills
First Reading
1. Trade Descriptions (Amendment) Bill 2007
2. Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007
3. Product Eco-responsibility Bill
Second Reading (Debates to be adjourned)
| | 1. | Trade Descriptions (Amendment) Bill 2007 | : | Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
| | 2. | Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007 | : | Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury
| | 3. | Product Eco-responsibility Bill | : | Secretary for the Environment
| Second Reading (Debate to resume), Committee Stage and Third Reading
| | Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (Amendment) Bill 2007 | : | Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury
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IV. Members' Bills
First Reading
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Declaration of C. W. Chu
College, Wu Yee Sun College and Lee Woo Sing College as Constituent Colleges) Bill
Second Reading (Debate to be adjourned)| The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Declaration of C. W. Chu College, Wu Yee Sun College and Lee Woo Sing College as Constituent Colleges) Bill | : | Hon CHEUNG Man-kwong |
V. Members' Motions
- Setting up a fund to meet the needs of the ageing population and help the poor
Hon TAM Heung-man: (Translation)
That, as the SAR Government may record a huge fiscal surplus in the 2007-2008 financial year and it is anticipated that the Government will have considerable surplus in the next few years, this Council urges the Government, in addition to appropriately increasing the expenditures on education, medical services, social welfare and promotion of economic development, as well as implementing one-off relief measures such as tax rebates or rates exemption, to set aside part of its surplus for setting up a long-term sustainable fund to meet the additional expenditures arising from implementing policies to cope with the ageing population and help the poor and, at the same time, establish a funding mechanism for the fund under which a certain proportion of the surplus will be injected into the fund if the fiscal surplus in a financial year exceeds a certain level, so as to maintain the fund's effective operation.
| Amendments to motion
| | (i) | Hon SIN Chung-kai: (Translation)
To delete "as" after "That," and substitute with "according to the Hong Kong population projections by the Census and Statistics Department, the old age population will continue to increase in the next 30 years from 2011, bringing about a substantial increase in medical and welfare expenditures, which may exert pressure on public finance, and"; to add ", which include appropriating $50 billion to set up an 'Old Age Reserve Fund' to meet the surging medical, welfare and related public expenditures from 2011 onwards because of the ageing of the population" after "help the poor"; and to add "and half of the annual investment income of the Exchange Fund will be allocated to the fund," after "a certain level,".
| | (ii) | Dr Hon KWOK Ka-ki: (Translation)
To add "including implementing a tax rebate scheme for purchasing medical insurance, increasing the amount of health care vouchers, allocating additional resources to enhance mental health services, providing more resources to the Hospital Authority to improve the uneven distribution of resources among hospital clusters," after "promotion of economic development,".
| | (iii) | Hon TAM Yiu-chung: (Translation)
To delete "part of its surplus for setting up a long-term sustainable fund to meet the additional expenditures arising from implementing policies to cope with the ageing population and help the poor and, at the same time, establish a funding mechanism for the fund under which a certain proportion of the surplus will be injected into the fund if the fiscal surplus in a financial year exceeds a certain level, so as to maintain the fund's effective operation" and substitute with "sufficient resources for the expeditious implementation of various existing measures to cope with the ageing population and help low-income families, including the recommendations set out in the reports of the Commission on Poverty and the Legislative Council Subcommittee to Study the Subject of Combating Poverty" immediately before the full stop.
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Public Officer to attend : Secretary for Labour and Welfare
- Report on Public Consultation on Green Paper on Constitutional Development
Hon Albert CHAN: (Translation)
That this Council strongly condemns that the Report on Public Consultation on Green Paper on Constitutional Development published on 12 December 2007 by the Administration has given a distorted account of public aspirations for expeditiously implementing dual universal suffrage for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council, and has failed to provide a specific and clear timetable as well as a roadmap for dual universal suffrage, thus universal suffrage for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council cannot be fully implemented at an early date; in addition, this Council considers that dual universal suffrage for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council should be implemented by no later than 2012.
| Amendments to motion
| | (i) | Dr Hon YEUNG Sum: (Translation)
To delete "this Council" after "That" and substitute with ", given that Articles 45 and 68 of the Basic Law stipulate that the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will ultimately be elected by universal suffrage, and at present over half of the people support the implementation of dual universal suffrage for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council in 2012, this Council expresses regret that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress made a decision on 29 December 2007 to rule out the implementation of dual universal suffrage in 2012; and also".
| | (ii) | Hon LEE Cheuk-yan: (Translation)
To delete "this Council strongly condemns that" after "That"; to delete "thus universal suffrage for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council cannot be fully implemented at an early date; in addition, this Council considers that" after "a roadmap for dual universal suffrage," and substitute with "which has led to the ruling out of the implementation of dual universal suffrage in 2012 by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ('NPCSC') because it was unable to fully grasp the actual situation in Hong Kong; this Council expresses strong condemnation of the SAR Government's handling of Hong Kong's constitutional development, and urges the Chief Executive to request the State Council to propose to NPCSC to withdraw the above decision and affirm that"; to delete "should" before "be implemented" and substitute with "may"; and to delete "by no later than" after "be implemented" and substitute with "in Hong Kong in".
| | (iii) | Hon Alan LEONG Kah-kit: (Translation)
To delete "strongly condemns that" after "That this Council" and substitute with "notes that during his election campaign the Chief Executive made a number of specific undertakings to resolve the controversies over the political system in Hong Kong, but"; to add "not only completely failed to honour those undertakings, but has also" after "the Administration has"; and to add ", this Council therefore expresses strong condemnation against the Chief Executive" after "at an early date".
| | (iv) | Hon Ronny TONG Ka-wah: (Translation)
To delete "strongly condemns" after "That this Council" and substitute with "expresses deep regret"; to delete "and" after "the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council,"; and to delete ", thus universal suffrage for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council cannot be fully implemented at an early date" after "a roadmap for dual universal suffrage" and substitute with "and has, using the majority of the political parties/groups in the Legislative Council and the District Councils opposing the implementation of dual universal suffrage in 2012 as the reason, ruled out the implementation of full universal suffrage in 2012, and strongly condemns the SAR Government and those political parties/groups opposing the implementation of dual universal suffrage in 2012".
| | (v) | Hon LEUNG Kwok-hung: (Translation)
To add "; furthermore, this Council expresses strong dissatisfaction that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ('NPC') has ruled out the implementation of dual universal suffrage in 2012, considers that this decision is a sign of undermining the political rights of the people of Hong Kong, appeals to the NPC deputies to exercise their power to reverse this decision which throttles dual universal suffrage in 2012, and also appeals to the people of Hong Kong to unite in striving for the implementation of dual universal suffrage in 2012" immediately before the full stop.
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Public Officer to attend : Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs
Clerk to the Legislative Council
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