The government is owed €9.5 million in overdue factory rents, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said in Parliament.

He said 243 factories were late in their payments, with one factory not having paid rent since 1999.

The minister said a Debtors Committee has been set up to improve the process of rent collection.

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