Not using Australia Hall and failing to keep it in a good state of repair would have amounted to a breach of contract by the Labour Party, Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi told the Public Accounts Committee.

In the circumstances, the former minister responsible for government property added, Labour should have lost the Pembroke building without having any right to take back the Malta Shipbuilding site, which it had been asked to vacate and for which the government had given it Australia Hall in compensation.

Nothing official has been heard from Henley & Partners

At the start of the sitting, committee chairman Tonio Fenech referred to the media report that Henley & Partners, managers of the Individual Investor Programme, would not mind their contract being published and asked Justice Minister Owen Bonnici if this changed the government’s position.

Dr Bonnici said he had not heard anything officially from Henley & Partners and he would not move on the report. The situation therefore remained unchanged.

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