“Just as we had other bailouts we should have one to end this problem.”
President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, speaking during the presentation of a Caritas report that called for an increase in the minimum wage, about the need to help those living in poverty.
“We’d send this cheque to your secret offshore company – if you had the guts to tell us about it.”
Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil replying to an ultimatum sent to the PN by Kasco Ltd, the company owned by OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri – who is implicated in the Panama Papers – demanding payment of €121,000 owed for newsprint.
“I am working because I have a family. If the Times of Malta is going to feed my family, good luck. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
Labour MP Michael Falzon reacting to questions by a journalist from the Times of Malta about the fact that he has been given a job by the Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation, a State entity, after resigning as a parliamentary secretary in January in the wake of the Gaffarena scandal.
“For the first time we will reverse a trend where services in Gozo are inferior to those in Malta.”
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat speaking at the conclusion of a Labour Party congress in Gozo.
“I’m afraid that we may risk creating a multi-headed hydra without any identity.”
Shadow home affairs minister Beppe Fenech Adami reacting to the announcement by Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela that an academy to train soldiers, policemen, prison wardens and Civil Protection personnel is to be set up.
“Thank you for welcoming us here for the 12th year running, but don’t just listen to what we say and stop there. We want to see action taken.”
A motion on climate change presented to Parliament by Ekoskola students.