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Labour MP Marie-Louise Coleiro has written to Nationalist MP Clyde Puli, the chairperson of the parliamentary social affairs committee, to convene an urgent meeting and discuss the financial pressures that the 55 per cent energy surcharge has brought upon Maltese families.
Coleiro said it was the committee’s role to focus on a situation she said was creating “social crises and poverty upon many families, the elderly and Maltese and Gozitan individuals.”
Coleiro said a substantial number of families do not form part of the 13,000 exempted families and that the surcharge was an exaggerated burden. Coleiro said it was an impossible burden to shoulder and asked Puli to discuss the situation and issue recommendations to the government to amend the policy it has to adopt.
“I believe it is this committee’s job to give full priority to this situation which is creating a social crisis and bringing poverty upon many families… with the aim that our work would be truly worthy of the trust shown in us, and which can reflect the people’s interests we represent.”
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