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PN health shadow minister Claudette Buttigieg has called on the government to release the full report on structural weaknesses at Mater Dei Hospital.

"Stop playing this game," Ms Buttigieg told Health Minister Konrad Mizzi, accusing him of selectively quoting from the technical report.

She also asked for the tender specifications for the concrete issued by the Foundation for Medical Services at the time to be published so that comparisons could be drawn between the results of the latest study and what was supposed to have been delivered.

She insisted on full disclosure and for the matter to be debated in Parliament's health committee.

PN executive president Ann Fenech said Dr Mizzi was weakening the government's hand in trying to recoup any expenses by suing the contractors when he insisted on the waiver.

She said despite the waiver the government could still sue anybody involved in the supply, laying and certification of the defective concrete.

Dr Fenech said she had doubts on the strength of the waiver but insisted if someone along the line made fraudulent declarations, the government still had a right to sue on the basis of other laws.

Dr Fenech quoted from the project closure agreement signed between the FMS and Skanska in 2009, which has not yet been made public, and that includes the waiver.

Asked whether the PN would release the contract, Dr Fenech said she would have to take legal advice.

In a reaction, the government said the Opposition was in a state of panic trying to cast doubts on the confusion of previous governments in the building of Mater Dei and on the scandalous waiver signed by a Nationalist government.

Contrary to the impression the Opposition was giving, the waiver would not stop the present government from doing its utmost to safeguard its commercial, civil and criminal rights.

The real question, the government said, was why such a waiver had been given when the Project Closure Agreement had already addressed a number of other issues between the government of the day and Skanska.

The government also asked whether the advice of the Attorney General had been sought.

It asked why had the Opposition not published the contracts and relevant documents when it was in government if it had nothing to hide.

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