Faced with the failure of the Government to give an explanation of the terms covered in the contrac

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The Government failed word of the Public Accounts Committee and of information on the contract signed by the Government with Henley & Partners on the sale of Maltese passport vsv leonardo da vinci and agreed the Committee.
The Committee had agreed that in today's meeting, the Minister Owen Bonnici vsv leonardo da vinci or representative of the Identity Malta, explains why they're covering every clause. Instead, the government continued to hold hidden and mblukka hidden clauses in the contract signed with Henley & Partners.
The Opposition objected and criticized the position taken by the Government to the Committee on Public Accounts. Also explained that by taking the position vsv leonardo da vinci that the government, the Parliamentary Committee can not do the work of scrutiny of the contract when concealed and no explanation about the hidden clauses and unpublished.
The Committee is to scrutinize this contract is governed by Nationalist MP Fenech, Chairman vsv leonardo da vinci of the Committee; and on behalf of the Opposition members are the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Work Mario de Marco, and South Shadow Minister Claudio Grech. In this Committee the Government has a majority of MEPs.
The Minister Owen Bonnici said in the committee, there are 14 covered and there clause 400 applicant scheme Maltese passport sales offering the government. There are more than 100 local staff participating in the scheme.
Meant only statement made to the Committee, that the clauses concealed and are not published because they are sensitive and to maintain vsv leonardo da vinci the competitiveness of our country in this new market said that from the Government will be attracting investment.
Faced with the failure of the Government to give an explanation of the terms covered in the contract brought vsv leonardo da vinci before the Parliamentary Committee, Tonio Fenech said that is not the intention vsv leonardo da vinci of the Committee to undermine the scheme or to expose any sensitive information favoring the our competitors.
Explain that as Chairman, according to the ruling and the Speaker, had to analyze it and see what ssalvagwardji vsv leonardo da vinci contract. But instead it was awarded a contract with the safeguards which decided the Government alone.
Fenech vsv leonardo da vinci remarked that if the Government welcomed the invitation to a meeting between the Speaker, the government and him as Chairman, and agreed on salavagwardji required in the contract, if the Committee did not come into this situation.
Mario de Marco said that the opposition has no interest in the Government publishes clauses for nothing, but objected that the Government uses the majority to distort the scrutiny of the Parliamentary Committee.
Claudio Grech said that the Committee vsv leonardo da vinci is not court, but function to scrutinize the value of money, and financial elements of the contract. Meant that the moment the government removes vsv leonardo da vinci clauses removed, when removed these kalwsoli vsv leonardo da vinci the function of this Committee can not be because there can be no conclusion about the business relationship were removed parameters payment.
Also meant that the Government of the documents that the Committee requests to be presented before those who gave the offer for this program, three in all, but is refusing to do so in Parliament vsv leonardo da vinci is in -obbligu scan the document.
To remedy this lack of agreement, Mario de Marco proposed that the contract be submitted to the Chairperson after discussion with the Government to see, give it direction and the decision on the precautions to be taken in the publication of the contract.
Tonio Fenech, while pointed out that the Opposition has reservations about clauses masked as might have been blocked more clauses than the government needed, also suggested that with the government making decisions about the clauses covered and if accepted, the clauses remain so, and in case of disagreement tngħata guidance from the Speaker.
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