Quotes of the week

“Shall I bring them out to thaw and die?”

Saint James Hospital director Josie Muscat asking what he should do with unclaimed frozen embryos after the parliamentary select committee recommended this procedure.

“It will be like a new Moviment Iva.”

Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando on his plans to set up a pro-divorce movement on the scale of the Yes to EU campaign for the referendum in 2003.

“The government should see this as an investment, not a cost.”

Malta Confederation of Women’s Organisations chairman Anna Borg urging authorities to share the cost of maternity leave with employers.

“New rules limit room for manoeuvre.”

Finance Minister Tonio Fenech on how he has to bear in mind the EU’s stricter rules to keep the deficit below the three per cent mark by 2012 when presenting the Budge tomorrow.

“He was giving us directions on his mobile phone.”

Civil Protection Department official Natalino Bezzina on how they managed to track down the 60-year-old man who fell in a dry well, concealed by a dumped refrigerator, while walking his dog in Għargħur.

“I heard a loud bang. Next thing... I see my dog lying in a pool of blood.”

Raymond Pace describing how his pharaoh hound, Tinu, was shot in the face after jumping over a low wall into a farmer’s field in Siġġiewi.