Lam Cheng Ming went to the Legislative Council in the afternoon to criticize the members for putting pressure on them. Liang Junyan: It is a good time for the members to ask questions

The Legislative Council will hold a question-and-answer session by the Chief Executive via video at 2:30 pm tomorrow (23rd), which will last about 1.5 hours. Members can ask questions to the Chief Executive.

This will be the first video-based Chief Executive's Q&A session. The Chairman of the Legislative Council, Mr Leung Kwan-yin, said that the government has concentrated its time on dealing with the epidemic this month, so it has taken the time for questioning in the past. Answer MPs' questions about the pandemic in person.

The Q&A session believes that the focus will be on the government's latest stance on epidemic prevention. Carrie Lam announced yesterday to "suspend" compulsory nationwide testing. At the press conference, he retorted that some Legislative Council members said that "you can do it if you want to", and think that those who put pressure on people should reflect on the compulsory testing of the whole people. cost.

Leung Junyan believes that Hong Kong has freedom of speech, and lawmakers have many good plans, but the final implementation depends on the government.

It is expected that the epidemic situation will stabilize and the conference will resume the inquiry session early next month

Liang Junyan pointed out that under the epidemic, the Legislative Council will only deal with bills with legal effect this month, emphasizing that there is no shutdown at the legislative level, and it will not affect the deliberation of bills. Currently, 4 bills are being processed.

If the epidemic eases, although the meeting in early April will still be held remotely, it will gradually resume handling parliamentary questions and parliamentary bills.

Liang Junyan also pointed out that the chairman of the panel has discussed with the authorities to continue to hold meetings by video from next week.

He said that at present, 4 out of 90 members are infected with the virus, and there are also confirmed cases in the Secretariat. It is hoped that the fatigue will stabilize, and that they can gradually return to normal and perform their duties in the Legislative Council.

Liang Junyan.

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The morning meeting proceeds as usual, the first and second readings of the rent prohibition bill

The President of the Legislative Council instructed the Secretariat to inform Members that the Chief Executive's Q&A will be held on 23 March 2022 from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm.

The questions that members can ask at the meeting do not specify specific matters, and the meeting does not deal with other matters except the question-and-answer session.

According to the agenda on the Legislative Council’s website, tomorrow’s meeting will be held at 11:00 a.m. as usual. The agenda will mainly deal with the first and second readings of the “Short-term Protection Measures for Commercial Tenants (COVID-19) Bill, which is the Budget Office. Proposed moratorium on rent recovery bill.

It is understood that the morning meeting will continue as usual, and the Chief Executive's Q&A session is an ad hoc meeting.

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