“He is helping out with giving Mepa a certain direction.”
Planning Parliamentary Secretary Michael Farrugia defending his decision to use a planning authority officer to issue orders to staff.
“I don’t want the next Pres-ident to face this uncomfortable experience.”
President George Abela insisting presidents should not be forced to read “purely political” speeches.
“I was given a very limited waiver... to follow up cases.”
Ophthalmic surgeon Franco Mercieca defending his decision to continue practising while being a parliamentary secretary in breach of the ministerial code of ethics.
“The impression being given that he is an essential cogwheel in the department... is not the case.”
Mater Dei Hospital’s ophthalmic department head Thomas Fenech pooh-poohing Franco Mercieca’s assertion that he was the sole medical practitioner in any field of eye surgery.
“The script was written and I followed it loyally.”
Nationalist leadership contender Simon Busuttil insisting that by the time he was elected deputy leader the election campaign’s ‘script’ was already written and being implemented.
“If there are councillors who are thinking of voting for me because of what my father represented, I don’t wish to disappoint them.”
Nationalist leadership contender Mario de Marco eliciting the differences between himself and his father, the late President Emeritus Guido de Marco.
“Malta can still hold on to its claim to fame.”
University Department of Archaeology head Nicholas Vella saying Malta’s temples remained the oldest free-standing monuments in the world despite revelations that Stonehenge in the UK was occupied as early as 7,500BC.