The premier yesterday stressed that the Executive Yuan stands with the citizens of Kaohsiung.

Cabinet's Response on Reports

Several local news outlets yesterday reported that the Cabinet has decided not to set up a law governing all underground pipelines in the nation, not to allocate a separate budget for reconstruction efforts in Kaohsiung, and not to establish a special commission to manage the reconstruction efforts.

Sun responded to the reports, saying that as underground petrochemical pipeline management involves too many governmental agencies and each agency has its own set of regulations to govern the issue, the Executive Yuan will not make another set of laws regulating it.

The spokesman said a cross-ministry meeting held on Monday did not discuss the possibility of establishing a special commission under the Cabinet to manage the reconstruction matter in Kaohsiung.

Sun said the Cabinet deems that there is no urgency to establish such a commission at the moment because the existing regulations are enough for the city to act in accordance with.

Kuomintang (KMT) lawmakers Huang Chao-shun (黃昭順) and Lin Kuo-cheng (林國正) yesterday afternoon visited the premier at the Executive Yuan and exchanged opinions over the fatal explosions in Kaohsiung.Jiang said the executive branch is making every effort to assist Kaohsiung in rebuilding the damaged parts of the city. He pointed out that to draft a special bill and allocate a special budget for Kaohsiung is too slow a method to save the critical situation. “We don't need to spend extra time to make a new law in the Legislative Yuan,” the premier said.

Huang later told reporters that she previously wanted to draft a special bill to govern and allocate a budget for reconstruction efforts in Kaohsiung. She said after discussions with KMT lawmakers and Jiang, she now agrees with Jiang that to legislate a bill for the reconstruction work will take too much time.

內閣全力支持高雄重建

通過Lauly李本中國郵政
2014年8月6日，上午12:00 TWN

總理江依樺（江宜樺）昨天重申，行政院會全力支持高雄市政府在最近天然氣爆炸之後的重建工作，反對派議員指責內閣後的“冷血”。

週一，高雄市秘書長李瑞滄（李瑞倉）說，據初步估計，全市至少需要新台幣1.9十億重建其受損部位。

內閣發言人孫立，繼群（孫立群）昨日表示，根據災害防救法，地方政府應動用自己的應急基金，年度預算及公眾捐款，第一。如果這樣做，高雄後，仍然發現自己缺乏資金，那麼中央政府將“肯定”給予財政援助的城市。

總理昨天強調，行政院代表與高雄市民。

內閣對報告反應

幾個當地的新聞媒體昨日報導稱，內閣已決定不設立管理所有地下管線在國家法律，不分配一個單獨的預算在高雄的重建努力，而不是設立一個特別委員會來管理重建工作。

孫回應了報導，稱作為地下石油化工管道的管理涉及太多政府機構，每個機構都有自己的一套規則來治理這個問題，行政院不會再拍一套規範它的法律。

這位發言人說，在星期一舉行跨部會議沒有討論建立內閣下的一個特別委員會來管理在高雄重建物質的可能性。

孫說，內閣認為沒有迫切需要在此刻成立這樣一個委員會，因為現有的法規是不夠的城市按照行事。

江澤民說，行政部門正全力協助高雄在重建城市的受損部位。他指出，起草一項特別法案，並撥出特別預算高雄太慢的方法來挽救危局。“我們並不需要花費額外的時間，使在立法院一項新的法律，”總理說。

國民黨立委黃超順（黃昭順）和林廓成（林國正）昨日下午參觀了總理在行政院交換了高雄的致命爆炸的意見。

黃後來告訴記者，她以前想起草一份特別法案來管理和分配預算在高雄的重建工作。她說，與國民黨的國會議員和江商量後，她現在同意了江立法法案，重建工作將花費太多時間。