“If I were the Prime Minister responsible for the next budget, I would introduce a maximum tariff rate that would remain stable for the whole year, thus giving a guarantee that irrespective of oil prices, the tariff will remain the same”
Joseph Muscat
“With one side of his mouth the Prime Minister Gonzi tells the Leader of the Opposition to take his questions of corruption to the Police Commissioner. With the other side he denies the opposition the proper working of the mechanism of the Public Accounts Committee. Something's beginning to rot, somewhere.”
Lino Spiteri
“God forbid that the rules of the political game should be played about with in the manner proposed by Gonzi.”
“An opposition leader deals with the Prime Minister, not with component parts of the executive. Were opposition members to go directly to members of the public administration with their queries, the government would surely yell 'foul!' And rightly so.”
“If I were Prime Minister instead of Gonzi, I would not have introduced the crazy utility bills”
“What I am saying is that people are not robots. One cannot simply dictate that tariffs increase whenever the price of oil increases. For me, the role of the state is to sustain people to remain productive”
“Labour government would give stronger investigative powers to the Auditor-General, particularly when witnesses did not collaborate with him. The Auditor-General would also have the right to reopen the BWSC case,”
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