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Continued update︱The Legislative Council passed the remote meeting of the DAB Leung Hee to ask the management of Penny's Bay

2022-01-19T09:20:09.818Z


The Legislative Council kicked off on Wednesday (12th) with the Chief Executive's Q&A session. Today (19th) is the first official meeting. The DAB's new parliamentarian, Leung Hee, was approved by Chairman Leung Kwan-yen to raise an urgent question.


The Legislative Council kicked off on Wednesday (12th) with the Chief Executive's Q&A session. Today (19th) is the first official meeting. The DAB's new parliamentary member, Liang Xi, was approved by Chairman Liang Junyan to raise urgent questions. "Management Measures of Penny's Bay Quarantine Center", Liang Xi was concerned that two security guards at the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center had tested positive one after another, and worried that the center's management was chaotic and the sanitary conditions were poor, and the virus spread and cross-infection in the camp, and even let the virus flow into the community , asking the Secretary for Food and Health to explain improvement measures.


The urgent questions can be discussed for a maximum of one hour, and then there are 6 oral questions. Members put forward include Chen Manqi from the Election Committee, Yeung Wing Kit for direct elections in Kowloon Central, and Lu Songxiong from the Federation of Trade Unions.

Di Zhiyuan, the only non-establishment faction and social welfare circle, was also selected to raise an oral question, concerned that the NGOs receiving the lump sum grant had been cut.


Members who were absent from last week's meeting due to their attendance at Hong Weimin's birthday party, including He Junyao, Lin Zhiyuan, Lin Shunchao, Lin Lin, Ge Peifan, Rong Haien, Li Dongguo and Chen Jiapei, all appeared in today's meeting.


At the first official meeting of the Legislative Council, DAB's new Ding Ding Leung-hee was allowed to raise urgent questions and discuss the management measures of the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center.

(Photo by Luo Junhao)

[03:10] The Legislative Council passed a motion that within a specified time, remote meetings can be held in accordance with the "Rules of Procedure".

Li Huiliang of the DAB, who proposed the motion, said that the remote meeting is an emergency arrangement. He believes that the chairman of the assembly and the chairman of the committee will exercise their powers prudently, and the period of the measures will expire on December 31 this year.

Some Members are concerned about technical issues such as network security during remote meetings, and hope that the Legislative Council Secretariat will deal with them as soon as possible.

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[11:00] Many members of the Legislative Council who had attended Hong Weimin's birthday party, the representative of the Hong Kong People's Congress, attended the meeting. Among them, Li Dongguo, Rong Haien and Chen Jiapei of the New Democracy Party said that they had consulted experts on epidemic prevention and believed that the risk of infection was very low. He said that during the home isolation period, he had been tested many times according to the requirements of the Center for Health Protection, and all the results were negative, and he was handling official business as usual during the period.

Both he and Chan Ka Pei were selected to move the motions of Members.

Hong Weimin Party|Lam Shunchao wore N95 to the Legislative Council meeting on Wednesday, Guo Weiqiang predicted that many "comeback" members who had attended the "Hongmen Banquet" would participate in the Legislative Council meeting and said that they had consulted experts on epidemic prevention. Du Li Dongguo urges to schedule three injections

Source: hk1

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