1. The construction sector appealed to pan-democrats to stop filibustering
The Hong Kong Construction Industry Employees General Union together with the Resident Site Staff Association passed a petition letter to me and some other LegCo members on 5 Jan 2015 and urged the pan-democrats to stop filibustering. The filibustering has caused serious delay in funding approval of public works. It makes the construction sector worry that there would be a substantial drop in the amount of public works projects, which would affect the jobs of employees in the industry and would hurt the livelihood of the society.

As the Chairman of the Bills Committee, I delivered a report on the deliberations of the Bills Committee at the LegCo meeting on 17 December 2014. Four meetings were held to discuss the Bill by reference to trade division, senior workers registration arrangement, proposed exemption works, and administration of the Construction Workers Registration Ordinance. The amended Bill is expected to enhance competitiveness of the construction industry. The Bill was passed at the LegCo meeting on 18 Dec 2014. 

3. Raised oral question regarding importation of workers of construction industry
The Government has rolled out enhancement measure since April 2014 to expedite the preparatory works for the Supplementary Labour Scheme (SLS) applications involving 26 trades with manpower shortage submitted by contractors for public works. I raised a question at the LegCo meeting on 17 Dec and asked whether the authorities will expeditiously review the SLS, relax the various restrictions on labour importation, as well as conduct comprehensive review of the policy on importation of construction workers. The Government replied that they will continue to maintain close liaison with the industry to explore further enhancements on importation of workers so as to fulfill the needs of the industry.