It was recently revealed that €600,000 of taxpayers’ money has been paid over a period of three years for supervision payments in a case relating to the culling of a flock of sheep.
The sheep saga lingers on and the expenses keep increasing. There are costs to police supervision as well as possible compensation for the Għarb herdsman for keeping the sheep alive as well as the additional claim of lost business over three years.
In this interminable legal wrangle one is tempted to ask – who is responsible for this situaton? The veterinary services, the Għarb herdsman, our bureaucratic system, or our judicial system recently lambasted by the Constitutional Court “for failing to address the problem of excessive court delays”?