In response to Prof Patrick LAU, the Chairman clarified that Mr LEE Wing-tat's proposal was to authorize the Dev Panel to exercise the powers under the P&P Ordinance, and not to appoint a subcommittee to follow up the matter.

(f) for reasons stated in paragraphs 74 and 80, Hon James TO's second and third CSAs to the long title and Hon LEE Wing-tat's CSA to the long title are not admissible.

A curious chapter gives the Prologue of Moro, or Mara, Bishop of Amida (a Syriac writer whose works appear to have been lost), to his edition of the four Gospels in Greek, to which the writers appends as a curiosity the pericope of the woman taken in adultery (John 8) which Moro had inserted in the 89th canon; "it is not founded in other manuscripts" Book VIII, iii, gives the letter of Simeon of Beit-Arsham on the martyrs of Yemen, perhaps an apocryphal document.

I would like to respond to the second part of Mr LEE Wing-tat's question, that is, the standards and guidelines for compensatory wetlands, before explaining how we monitor the conservation of the wetlands.

In other words, it is true that this section regulates misleading or deceptive conduct, however, when Secretary Joseph WONG replied to Mr LEE Wing-tat's question on that day, he said that the authorities could only regulate marketing practices but not contracts.

He stressed that he had handled Mr LEE Wing-tat's request in accordance with the relevant procedures.

As the Sau Mau Ping area where the Site is located is mainly for subsidized housing, and the adjacent development in the Development at Anderson Road ("DAR") will be wholly for public rental housing ("PRH") development, a private-to-subsidized housing ratio of 80:20 for the Site has been proposed to improve the housing mix of the area.

The potential demand for small houses and possible extension of the village areas in Mau Ping remain unresolved issues.

As a measure to relieve overcrowding in public housing as well as avoiding the completed flats standing empty for long periods, we will recommend to the HA to convert some completed projects to PRH, starting from Hiu Lam Court in Sau Mau Ping in mid 2003.

He suggested that the various options put forth by Members for handling Mr LEE Wing-tat's proposal be put to vote.

In December 2006, the Finance Committee approved the part upgrading of 407RO “District open space adjoining Kwai Chung Estate, Sau Mau Ping and Choi Wan Road public housing development” to Category A as 418RO “District open space adjoining Sau Mau public housing development” at an estimated cost of $66.2 million in money-of-the-day (MOD) prices to provide the essential construction works for Sau Mau Ping district open space.

The purpose of Mr LEE Wing-tat's motion is to enable RTHK, the only public broadcaster established in Hong Kong with credibility and public recognition, to operate as a genuine public broadcaster, on the existing foundation and with the acquired resources, up to international standards in terms of status, governance structure and modus operandi.

I will also answer in passing to the question raised by Mr LEE Wing-tat's fellow party member, Mr James TO, in the meeting of 22 June.

Who would have thought that the very logical and eloquent Mr TSANG would say that they will support the Second Reading debate because they do not wish to see Mr LEE Wing-tat's work wasted?

Moreover, at the same time the amendment motion retains the spirit of Mr LEE Wing-tat's original motion which is to urge the Administration to consider the importance of the transportation problems concerned.

The following panellists of the second panel made statements: Susana Villarán de la Puente, Victor Karunan, Najat M’jid Maalla, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio and Eliana Restrepo.

In view of Mr LEE Wing-tat's concern, she had already instructed the Clerk to ESC to relay his concern to the Administration.

Mr LEE Wing-tat's motion has explicitly pointed out the need to "actively study the feasibility of transforming RTHK to become the Hong Kong Public Broadcasting Corporation, and conduct public consultation on the results of the review and the study".

I hope very much that Honourable colleagues can support Mr LEE Wing-tat's motion as well as Ms Cyd HO's amendment later on.

It consists of the western and northern parts of the Scandinavian peninsula and the northern territories of Jan Mayen and the Svalbard archipelago, and Bouvet Island, Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land in the Antarctic.

Mr Deputy President, with these remarks, I support the Honourable LEE Wing-tat's motion.

The University of Geneva also organized a special session with lectures given by Mr. Salman Salman, former Legal Adviser of the World Bank: “The New State of SouthSudan and Challenges of Secession”, Mr. Makane Moïse Mbengue, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Geneva: “ICJ, Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay)”, and Ms. Mara Tignino, Senior Researcher, University of Geneva: “Public Participation in Management of Transboundary Water Resources”.

The Chairman said that she would invite Members' views on the handling of Mr LEE Wing-tat's proposal after Members had expressed their views on the matter.

The Liberal Party agrees in principle with Mr LEE Wing-tat's amendment, which suggests that the relevant government departments should establish more pedestrian precincts in densely populated areas that have a high pedestrian flow, thus separating vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

But in any case, as far as I understand it, the Chairman of the Panel on Development, Prof Patrick LAU, has accepted Mr LEE Wing-tat's proposal of holding a meeting at the end of this month in the hope that we can give further explanations on this case in detail.

The proponent should demonstrate, in specific terms, that with their relatively limited landholdings (virtually owning no private land in Mau Ping), how they can effectively enhance the conservation value of the whole site, especially the ecologically more sensitive area in Mau Ping.

Regarding Lee Wing-tat's contest for the CE nomination, 68% and 73% of the respondents said it had no influence on their perceptions towards Lee Wing-tat and the Democratic Party respectively, 15% and 12% said their negative feelings towards Lee Wing-tat and the Democratic Party have increased.