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[Legislative Council ‧Live] Finance Committee Adopts Civil Servant Pay Increase Afternoon Commercial Electricity Fee Subsidy

2020-02-28T07:27:14.581Z


The outbreak of new coronavirus pneumonia (commonly known as Wuhan pneumonia) has continued. The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council has cancelled 3 meetings since February. The chairman of the Finance Committee, Chen Jianbo, said earlier that today's Finance Committee will be held as usual. He stressed that the current backlog of appropriations has exceeded more than 40 proposals, involving an amount of about 200 billion yuan. Many of the appropriations have become urgent and urgent.


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Written by: Zheng Rongdi, Di Ruimin

2020-02-28 10:01

Last updated: 2020-02-28 15:24

The outbreak of new coronavirus pneumonia (commonly known as Wuhan pneumonia) has continued. The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council has cancelled 3 meetings since February. The chairman of the Finance Committee, Chen Jianbo, said earlier that today's Finance Committee will be held as usual. He stressed that the current backlog of appropriations has exceeded more than 40 proposals, involving an amount of about 200 billion yuan. Many of the appropriations have become urgent and urgent.

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[12:40] Luo Zhiguang, the director of the Civil Service Bureau, later met with reporters and thanked the members who supported the funding adjustment of the civil service pay. He said that all civil servants will provide new food at the end of March, and the authorities will issue adjusted funds to aided schools and other funding agencies as soon as possible. Relevant agencies can adjust the salary of employees according to the established mechanism.

Luo Zhiguang mentioned that the government will gradually resume more public services on March 2. He emphasized that the restoration of public services was carried out under the premise of implementing targeted measures, reducing social contact and taking preventive measures.

The Budget announced that the Police Force will add 2,543 posts in the new year, accounting for 42% of the overall government job creation. When asked why the Police Department is the largest growth department, Luo Zhiguang explained that increasing staffing in all departments has its actual operational needs. The number of police forces is more than 30,000, which is the highest among all departments. Its manpower is based on its workload and work. The added complexity will be explained by the heads of departments in the Legislative Council.

A reporter asked why the government relaxed the guidelines on the use of masks. He responded that the government did not relax the guidelines on the use of masks, but only relaxed the procurement procedures to allow departments to be more flexible in purchasing to meet the needs of colleagues. Reiterated that the government will provide masks for those in need, including medical care and emergency services or frontline participation in the epidemic.

[12:15] Democrats met the media after the civil service pay increase was approved. Chen Shuzhuang, the convener of the Democrats' meeting, said that in the new Budget, the police force was given special treatment. The growth of the police force far exceeds the average increase in the number of civil servants, describing Hong Kong as a police city if it falls.

She said she believed that different political parties of the Democratic Party would propose amendments to the budget so as to reflect the opinions of the public.

Finally, the members of the House of Representatives shouted, "The five major demands are indispensable."

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[12:00] The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council approved the salary increase for civil servants at 12 noon. Colleague Chen Jianbo announced that the colleague who voted on the project, and a representative of the popular populist standing in the seat shouting "against the police" Zhu Kaidi left the seat and stood in front of the chairman's table to protest. The Citizen Party Guo Jiaqi also went to the conference room to hold a demonstration sign and vote to protest The vote continued, with 36 votes in favor and 19 votes against the approval of the grant.

When the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) Huang Dingguang stepped out of the conference room, he mocked Panmin ’s "receiving too much money for a short period of time." The FTU Lu Songxiong shouted, "The fat guy Li is really here." Zhiying was made up this morning.

[10:47] At the meeting, Fanmin criticized the issue of police violence. Liang Meifen pointed out that "excellent people go out, stupid people go for it." These problems would not have existed unless someone had instigated young people to commit acts of violence. Leung Mei Fen also stated that she was dissatisfied with the performance of many individual civil servants, including the anonymous support of the Department of Justice's anti-revision legislation, the public servants' public participation in anti-revision demonstrations, and the statement that Radio Television Hong Kong "selectively and often stimulates hatred", but she would not Ichigo refused to raise salary through civil servants, because salary is life-saving money for civil servants who stick to their posts.

Democratic Party Secretary Junjun Yu said that the epidemic has hit the market, and citizens must tighten their stomachs. "Everyone is embarrassed to talk about increasing labor, and should reduce expenses directly." He thinks that the current issue of raising wages is quite ironic. He also pointed out that constitutional lawmakers were well aware of what happened in the past six months. "Lin Zheng issued a copy of the" Tuk gray report "a few days ago. If you are enough to support the canal, you can imagine that the constitutional lawmakers will stay close. The department immediately escorted the Lin Zheng government. "He reiterated that civil servants could be increased, but police officers must not be increased.

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[10:25] Liang Meifen, a member of the National People's Federation, has spoken repeatedly against the general public, believing that if they have questions about the rules of procedure, they should stay in the rules of procedure committee for discussion. The secretary of the Finance Committee explained that the chairman has the right to make emergency meeting arrangements for special matters, and that the government has not taken away the civil service pay adjustment grant.

Chairman of the Finance Committee, Chen Jianbo, said that after the secretary explained that everyone should be confident in his ruling, he announced that the meeting would continue the last discussion item, that is, the Democratic Party Xu Zhifeng proposed to move the suspension of the discussion.

[10:17] The Legislative Council cancelled a number of meetings in response to the pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan, and today (28) reconvened the Standing Finance Committee meeting to consider the salary adjustment appropriation for civil servants involving 12.4 billion yuan. The pan-democracy raised a point of order, saying that the Finance Committee last Friday (21st) added a "special meeting arrangement" to consider the government's application for a 30 billion yuan funding for the establishment of an "anti-epidemic and anti-epidemic fund". The meeting arrangement is equivalent to the government's suspension of the "Civil Service Pay Adjustment" project and the addition of another project. It is believed that the holding of a regular meeting today should discuss the civil service pay adjustment from the beginning.

The Chairman of the Finance Committee, Mr. Chen Jianbo, rejected the opinion of the Democratic People's Republic of China, pointing out that the salary adjustment allocation for civil servants has been discussed in the Finance Committee for 30 hours, and he urged Members not to waste any more time. It should be chairman. "

The ACPL Liang Meifen repeatedly spoke against the people, thinking that if they have questions about the rules of procedure, they should stay in the rules of procedure committee for discussion.

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Source: hk1

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