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Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and Deputy Prime Minister Tonio Borg have told MaltaToday that the incomplete list of Foundation for Tomorrow’s Schools direct orders presented in Parliament by Minister Louis Galea was the list forwarded to him by FTS “on the basis of information available to them at the time”, declaring that any inference that the Minister misled the House by not supplying the information asked for was “completely incorrect”.
According to the findings and witness in the Consuelo Scerri Herrera inquiry into FTS, the list of direct orders issued by the FTS and presented in Parliament by Minister Louis Galea could have been misleading, given that this was an incomplete list of direct orders. Failing to properly answer the question originally asked in Parliament by Labour MP Joseph Abela, who asked for a list of direct orders issued by FTS, the list only included ‘invoiced direct orders’. The admission by FTS financial controller was that he had supplied the Minister with a list of direct orders which had been invoiced to the foundation, and not the list of all direct orders which had been issued by the foundation.
“Nowhere in the Magisterial inquiry (which incidentally had to examine those matters in which there could have been any infringements) is there any indication that any Minister consciously presented incomplete information,” a spokesperson from the Department of Information told MaltaToday. “Actually, the inquiry shows that in one case, there was incomplete information because it had been given in that way to the Minister. The inquiry confirms that whoever prepared that information had not informed the Minister that the information was incomplete.”
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