Parliamentary Secretary for Planning Michael Farrugia had asked the planning authority to halt discussion on two applications for a new waste recycling plant as the Government planned to “review” them, according to minutes seen by The Times.

The minutes belie statements made by Dr Farrugia in Parliament on Wednesday, when he insisted he had never asked for any such suspension of the applications.

“This morning, (Nationalist MP) George Pullicino said I had gone to Mepa and stopped the decision-making process on the (Għallis) waste treatment plant. Not true. I challenge him to say who gave him this information.”

But Mepa minutes for March 14 show the authority’s former chairman Austin Walker had informed the board that Dr Farrugia instructed him to stop the applications for Malta’s second waste recycling plant as he would be discussing them with Environment Minister Leo Brincat.

See full story in The Times

mmicallef@timesofmalta.com

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