They call for transparency, but they are themselves not transparent. Surely the PAC has the right to request the names of those authors, and to call them in front of it one by one. As far as I know, the NAO is accountable to Parliament, not above it.

That’s exactly it, Gatt’s accused of interference and keeping himself out of its workings conjunctively.

Issuing a memo outlining cabinet’s directives on protocol to follow is, shock horror, ‘ministerial interference’.

This one’s even better than Richard Cachia Caruana’s grilling by Vella and Luciano, where advice and reporting to the prime minister became ‘instructions’.

Or JPO’s insistence on calling Gordon Pisani to appear on his behalf before the party executive.

Given the stuff that certain NAO emplyees post on Facebook and the political FB groups they join, I think it is imperative that the NAO discloses the names of teh authors to see whether these people were truly independent.

So basically, the only real issue raised by the NAO is that minutes were not kept by the Oil Procurement Committee.

Where does the Minister come into this?

Is the NAO suggesting that Austin Gatt should have acted as Secretary of the Oil Procurement Committee, keeping and filing the minutes?