@Pat Zahra

There are great gaping holes in the system through which the dubious, the unreliable and the downright dangerous can creep in.

Erin Tanti was approved as supply teacher. He didn’t hold a warrant because he didn’t apply for one. Had he applied for one, it would have been issued.

Mark Vella Gera was let go by two different schools for similar offences.

Vince Taliana is still teaching, after being asked to leave a series of teaching jobs.

70 teachers have been found to have been employed without a teaching warrant.

Several teachers link up with their pupils on social networks and erode professional boundaries in other ways too.

Some teachers’ off-duty behaviour is less than exemplary.

Need I go on?

Kudos to you for taking your job seriously. Don’t take criticism personally. But don’t defend the indefensible, either. All the controls you mention didn’t save Lisa Maria Zahra from Erin Tanti. Isn’t it time that prospective teachers’ personalities are tested, along with their academic ability?

Which means that Joseph Muscat goes through Manwel Mallia for details or does he have his own key to the info?

What about Keith Kasco?

Here’s more about the ECJ’s ruling on the tyrannical EU Directive – http://euobserver.com/news/123791

Let’s hope our parliament now revokes this piece of EU shite.

Varist’ll be harpooning pupils in Antarctica next.

And we have to ghost of the SMU and the Mintoff regime to deal with, Kev.

Ah, and those passionate speeches by our MEPs defending our privacy in the European Parliament… That must have been their finest hour.

It’s the only time the ECJ has ever blocked any tyrannical EU legislation of the sort – and only because Germany refused to implement the directive (the ghost of the Gestapo still haunts them).

I must have missed your protestations when the data retention directive was being processed through the EP and Council. If I recall well enough, Gonzi made quite a fuss at the Council, and The People were all out in the streets. TVM banged on about it for months on end.

While Erin Tanti was teaching without a warrant and dating a 15 year old student !

No research is ever conducted requesting an ID card number. Furthermore any research done has to be accompanied by a signed consent form and in the case of universities the questions asked have to be approved by an ethics board before consent is granted.