The Employment and Training Corporation has been instructed by the government to put all that was necessary at the disposal of the 58 Selmun Palace Hotel employees who received their notice of dismissal last week.
Speaking on Radio 101 this morning, Dr Gonzi hoped that these workers would find a new job as soon as possible.
He said the decision to dismiss them had been a very tough one but it had to be taken after the government failed to sell the company, an Air Malta subsidiary, in spite its efforts in the past three years.
The government had made it a condition that buyers would have to take on the workers.
HONORARIA
Dr Gonzi also referred to yesterday's Parliamentary debate on the Oppostion's honoraria motion and insisted that in giving himself and ministers a raise, the government had only followed the system used in the House of Commons, on which it was modelled.
He said that while ministers previously had to give up their honoraria, they were now getting both the ministerial pay and honoraria.
This decision followed another the government had taken in the last legislature, through which MPs who worked in the civil service no longer had to resign their job on being elected.
Through this decision, Labour MP Roderick Galdes was getting an additional €566 a week, Silvio Parnis, an additional €270 a week and Anthony Zammit an additional €1,137 a week. This was money they would otherwise have had to give up.
Dr Gonzi said he proposed that the system should be examined by the House Select Committee for Democracy. Although it seemed that the Opposition was not agreeing with this proposal, the government would still go ahead with it.
IVF
The Prime Minister spoke briefly on IVF saying he hoped he would be able to move a bill on to Parliament in the coming weeks, following a discussion in the PN's parliamentary group.
He spoke on progress being achieved in the country, including that 75 per cent of students were now continuing with their education after the age of 16, an economic growth of 2.3 per cent in the first three months of the year and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the EU.