I refer to the article ‘Warrants freeze hits job hopes of new architects’ (The Sunday Times of Malta, December 1).

Resignations had been requested by a general government circular, which is customarily issued with the election of a new government and not specifically by the Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure, as implied in the article.

The Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure could not and did not dissolve the Engineering Warranting Board and the Periti Warranting Board and never accepted the resignations submitted by some of its members, specifically because these provide a very important service.

As a matter of fact, the Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure never proposed any new members for these boards after the expiry of the term of some of the members.

Some members’ term of office expired at the end of September 2013, while others have a term that extends well beyond the end of the year.

The number of pending applications for warrants until the end of September was nine and figures have been inflated to cast a bad light on the government.

The proposed amendments to the composition of the warrants board have nothing to do with any pending applications, as these have not been approved by Parliament.