The above is the job specification given in an answer tabled in Parliament to Mario de Marco’s question. Ten of the 184 on the ‘trust appointments’ list enjoy this dubious employment description. Such a shameful answer is not acceptable, not even at band-club level!

So transparent; it is not even there, just like the king’s clothes.

Does that kind of job fall under precarious employment? It must take a desperate sort of candidate to accept to do “what is necessary”. Are there no parameters?

If there is no job description, how can there be a contract? What are the qualifications? What do the trade unions have to say? Is it at all legal? Is it in breach of human rights? Is it even constitutional?

Demeaning it must be!

The Opposition MP cannot be happy with this answer and neither can his fellow MPs or the party leader. Yet, has there been any reaction from the Opposition? Not a whimper.

We taxpayers surely cannot be happy. He who pays has a right to know what he is buying.

If this was a banana republic, we would all be monkeys. And monkeys we are not. We certainly deserve a lot better.