PL proposes Parliamentary debate on Permanent Residents' Scheme
The Labour Party has proposed a Parliamentary debate on the permanent residents’ scheme.
In a motion presented to Parliament today, MPs Charles Mangion and Roderick Galdes said the debate should discuss the scheme and the challenges it presented for the country and propose suggestions for its reactivation under new rules which would prevent abuse.
They said that the debate should not be followed by a vote for the scheme to be over and above politics so that investors would be reassured.
The Permanent Residents’ Scheme was suspended in December and no other scheme had been set up to replace it.
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A Micallef
Mar 29th 2011, 09:45
Finally! Hopefully the goeverment will no longer drag its feet about the issue and bring on more banal excuses. This issue has already affected high networth people considering Malta or their consideration of a future in Malta . Why is Goverment being so blind as to view this as a property issue,? I Or is calling it a property issue seeking to justify its incompetence? Isn't spending money sourced from overseas a positive thrust to our economy?And lots of money too spent on electricians,plumbers , restaurants, bringing friends over to malta, furnishings, curtains , cleaning etc. These people provide work to our economy, bring money over to Malta and yet cannot work in Malta. What could be better ? Can Goverment at least remove the suspension for EU applicants? Why are we only seeking to provide residence to people who come to Malta to takeffind a job?
George Cremona
Mar 28th 2011, 22:47
Aren't these the same politicians who during the E.U. membership referendum tried to frighten the people that after membership the foreigners would come and buy as much property as they like, that the Sicilians would come and take the jobs of the Maltese?
C.Camilleri
Mar 29th 2011, 07:22
Int bis-serjeta tahseb li l-isqallin mhumiex jehdulna xogholna? Ma nlumekx jekk ma intiex tmexxi xi negozju zghir. Dawn qed jigu hawn jiehdu l-ordnijiet imorru sqallija u hmistax wara jaghmlu d-deliveries. Forsi veru ma gewx parrukiera imma per ezempju ghal xoghol ta ghamara, aperturi, hadid, ikalvanizzar tqeghid ta madum, kisi bil gypsium,suffetti,xoghol ta l-aluminium, bejgh ta ghodda, hwejjeg, affarijiet tad dulciera u mitt haga ohra jigu kulljum bil Katamaran. Kull ma ghandek taghmel hu li tistaqsi lil min qed jintlaqat direttament.
john vella
Mar 29th 2011, 07:52
Did I ready well?
A motion that it is quoted to have said: . . . and propose suggestions for its reactivation (residence scheme) under new rules which would prevent abuse.
It sure make sense that those with full stomach care less for those who are starving.
This country is bankrupt, boats full of illegals are coming, they need to eat, sleep, lodging, hospitalization, funds to keep them every day going from our TAX. And our PL under Dr. JM is interested in divorce and the future permanent residents, of course not that they are coming in hundreds by boats.
cellul
Mar 29th 2011, 08:43
With all due respect but if the PN government didn't signed the Dublin 2 treaty then we wouldnt have been in this problem in the first place. You may not have noticed but we're obliged to FORCE immigrants to stay here whether they like it or not. That's the deal that our valuri sodi government had signed to appease his EU masters.
Now what had the GonziPN done to solve the immigration problem? The Oliver Twist like voluntary burden sharing? Frontex ferry boat? The par idejn sodi seems trembling at the thought of falling in the EU masters bad books. B'sahhtu mad daghjef, dghajjef mal bsahhtu.
Mary Fisher
Mar 28th 2011, 20:39
Malta cannot expect foreigners to invest their lifetime savings in Malta without due assurances. People who have already settled here should be given a chance to voice the shortcomings that they have encountered thus making sure that mistakes will not be repeated.