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Going through TV channels last Friday, I hit the programme Xarabank, when there was the Prime Minister answering questions from the audience. Unfortunately the programme was at its end, when a gentleman stood up and told the PM about the bureaucracy of certain government departments, and the arrogance of certain government entities with full autonomy, and chose to mention the ADT, which he said do not even bother to send an acknowledgement. I gladly back this gentleman who I don’t even know.
Twice I wrote to this semi-government: once about the charging of Lm2.50 each time we change the driving license, as an administration fee, when we taxpayers are paying for their salaries, not to mention that pensioners pay this scandalous fee (Lm12.50 for ten years, while the young pay only Lm2.50). To this I never received a single word from them.
The second time I wrote to them and MEPA about a particular bus stage. This time I registered my letters. In a week I received a satisfactory reply from MEPA, but again nothing from the ADT. About this both the Transport Minister and the Prime Minister knew about, because I wrote to them both on the 11 January 2005, and I received an acknowledgement signed from Mr Mugliett’s private secretary on 14 January, and from the private secretary of the PM on 18 January 2005. Both letters are without reference numbers.
But the PM answered back to this gentleman defending this entity by saying among other things, “that we must say the truth that the ADT has done a great job; it invested millions of Maltese liri in new roads.” I am confused about who paid for the new roads: the EU, the Maltese government or the ADT? Or are all of them picking one every time it suits us? I had the impression, as shown by the number of billboards along the whole way from Qormi to Mdina, that these roads are being financed by the Italian-Maltese protocol.
Everyone can do a good job when showered with millions of liri, but I believe that the one who puts the money is the one who invests, and the one who spends it is a spender. What does the PM expect, that they share it between them?
Joseph Muscat
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