Over €7 million in overseas aid used to help immigrants last year

€889,835 was spent on asylum processes, €4,051,689 on accommodation, €1,426,144 on food, and €675,972 on immigrant stipends.

6 July 2015, 8:04pm
by Tim Diacono

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€7,043,640 in overseas development aid was used to help irregular immigrants in 2014, up from the €6,717,667 spent in 2013.

The information was tabled in Parliament by Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela in response to a parliamentary question by Opposition MP Francis Zammit Dimech.

Out of this money, €889,835 was spent on asylum processes, €4,051,689 on accommodation, €1,426,144 on food, and €675,972 on immigrant stipends.

In response to a separate PQ by Zammit Dimech, Foreign Affairs Minister George Vella revealed that €239,405 from the Overseas Development Aid scheme was spent on 20 projects throughout 2014.

The most expensive project were those of Rotary Club Malta to construct a primary school near Lake Victoria in Uganda (€30,000), of KOPIN to build classrooms and buy educational material in Addis Adaba, Ethiopia (€24,435), and of Mission Fund to build a storey of dormitories for girls who attend St. Xavier’s College in India.

Tim Diacono is a former reporter for MaltaToday.