Ministers and parliamentary secretaries: have your say here
Here’s the DOI press release. Please have your say. I’ve just written my views for my column in The Malta Independent tomorrow, which you’ll be able to read in the print edition or on line.
PR0391 – MINISTERS AND PORTFOLIOS
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister: Dr Joseph Muscat
Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Simplification of Administrative Processes: Dr Michael Farrugia
Cabinet Office
Internal Audit and Investigations
Public Administration
Strategic Policy Coordination
Management Efficiency Unit
Information
Planning, Policy and Priorities Coordination
Malta Environment and Planning Authority
Government Printing Press
Lands
Land Registry
Joint Office
Ministry for European Affairs and Implementation of the Electoral Manifesto
Deputy Prime Minister: Mr Louis Grech
Parliamentary Secretary for the EU Presidency 2017 and EU Funds: Dr Ian Borg
Relations with the European Union
EU Internal Coordination
EU Presidency 2017
EU Funds and Programmes
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Minister: Dr George Vella
Relations with Foreign and Commonwealth Countries
Relations with International Organisations and Institutions
International Economic Relations
Maltese Communities Abroad
Ministry for Tourism
Minister: Mr Karmenu Vella
Parliamentary Secretary for Culture and Local Government: Dr Jose’ A Herrera
Tourism
Tourism Studies
Cultural Heritage
Restoration
External Transport
Airport
National Library
National Archives
Culture and the Arts
National Orchestra
Theatres
Valletta 2018
Local Government
Ministry for Education and Employment
Minister: Mr Evarist Bartolo
Parliamentary Secretary for Research, Innovation, Youth & Sport: Dr Stefan Buontempo
Childcare and Early Education
Compulsory Education
Higher Education (including MCAST)
Life-long Learning
Examinations
Public Libraries
Employment and Training
Research and Innovation
Centre for Development, Research and Training
Science and Technology Policy
Youth
Sport and Sport Complexes
Ministry for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change
Minister: Mr Leo Brincat
Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights: Mr Roderick Galdes
Climate Change Policy
Environmental Policy
Waste Management Strategy
National Parks, Afforestation and the Countryside
Rural Development
Agriculture
Horticulture
Fisheries
Aquaculture
Animal Welfare
Veterinary Services
Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure
Minister: Mr Joe Mizzi
Manufacturing and Servicing
Construction and Maintenance
Cleansing
Coordination of Major Government Projects
Internal Transport
Roads
Coordination of Road Building, Maintenance and Landscaping
Ministry for Gozo
Minister: Dr Anton Refalo
Gozo Affairs (excluding Health services and Education)
Ministry for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties
Minister: Dr Helena Dalli
Social Dialogue
Civil Liberties
Equality
Data Protection
Non-Governmental and Voluntary Organisations
Competition and Consumer Affairs
Medicines Authority
Industrial and Employment Relations
Ministry for the Economy, Investment and Small Business
Minister: Dr Christian Cardona
Parliamentary Secretary for Competitiveness and Economic Growth: Dr Edward Zammit Lewis
Economic Policy
External Trade
Industry
Investment Promotion
Malta Enterprise
Government Investments
Small Business and the Self-Employed
Cooperatives
Trade Services
Ports
Maritime Affairs
Promotion of Financial Services
Information and Communication Strategy
Digital Economy
Ministry for the Family and Social Solidarity
Minister: Ms Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Parliamentary Secretary for Rights of Persons with Disability and Active Ageing: Dr Franco Mercieca
Social Policy
Family Policy
Child Policy
Social Housing
Social Security
Pensions
Solidarity Services
Policy concerning Persons with Disability
Elderly
Community Care
Ministry for Home Affairs and National Security
Minister: Dr Emanuel Mallia
Parliamentary Secretary for Justice: Dr Owen Bonnici
Defence
Armed Forces
Police
Immigration
Airport Security
Correctional Services
Probation and Parole
Civil Protection
Citizenship and Expatriate Affairs
Central Visa Unit
National Identity Management
Public Registry
Civil Registration
ID Cards
Passports
Courts of Justice
Attorney General’s Office
Notary to Government
Broadcasting
Public Broadcasting Services
Ministry for Finance
Minister: Prof Edward Scicluna
Budget Office
The Treasury
Inland Revenue
Indirect Taxation
Customs and Excise
Contracts
Financial Services Regulation
Malta Statistics Authority
Relations with Central Bank
Ministry for Energy and the Conservation of Water
Minister: Dr Konrad Mizzi
Development of Alternative Energy Sources
Oil Exploration
Energy Policy
Malta Resources Authority
Enemalta Corporation
Water Policy
Water Services Corporation
Ministry for Health
Minister: Dr Godfrey Farrugia
Health Services Regulation and Standards
Health Services
Occupational Health and Safety
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I wonder what Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando must be feeling, watching the man who cuckolded him so spectacularly move straight into a ministry after being elected at his first attempt, while he gets fobbed off – YET AGAIN – with the chairmanship of the Malta Council for Science and Technology.
And he doesn’t even deserve that.
My favourite so far is Maria l-Mouse, Minister for education if you please.
Doesn’t have a clue what “No taxation without representation” means.
So if I vote for tal-Ajkla (I didn’t) I don’t pay tax, Sur Bartolo?
What a frigging disaster of our own making!
[Daphne – Yes, that’s what he said: that AD should have a seat in parliament with a national quota, because those who voted for them have a right to ‘no taxation without representation’. So what about the thousands of non-Maltese who live, work and pay tax in Malta but are denied the vote because they are not citizens?]
Almost half the adult population doesn’t pay tax and still votes.
So the PL criticised the previous administration with spending too much money on ministers’ salaries, and now Muscat comes out with the brillaint idea of having 14!
What a hypocrite.
Malta taghna lkoll hux, issa ser tkun izjed tal-Ministri u tat-8 segretarji parlamentari.
Then they were scandalised with the 500 euro honoraria that the Government gave to its ministers.
My first reacton was worry, then I thought if they f….k up that’s it.
The Ministry for Tackling Public Shows of Insubordination is conspicously absent.
Yesterday Marlene Farrugia, and today Jose Herrera, have already started to vent their anger.
What did Marlene do?
THE PERFECT STORM.
http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542663_498820880178868_2133603578_n.jpg I like how they did not stop mentioning the weeky €500, when EVEN with that, PN’s cabinet would have been less costly.
Not to mention personal drivers, officers, and perks for each.
Home Affairs and Justice are back together.
I wonder what Franco thinks about this.
Seems good to me.
Jose Herrera refuses to shake JM’s hand:
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/elections2013/Labour-New-government-cabinet-appointed-20130313
The people have chosen. They will now get the government THEY deserve for the coming 5 years.
There are 2 titles which will look dumb on a letterhead:
– Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Simplification of Administrative Processes
– Minister for the Implementation of the Electoral Manifesto
Whether we like it or not we are lumped with this lot. As Dr Cool and Relax told you back in 1996 (fun times), the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
At this point, I’ll just pray and hope that the pudding isn’t too bitter.
My gut feeling is that Muscat gave a ministry to the old-timers to keep them happy, then 2 or 3 years down the line, there may be a reshuffle.
Berlusconi had both. At least he kept himself busy.
Pity we don’t have a Ministry for Silly Walks. Would have been rather appropriate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
Perhaps a further reflection of the very many promises made. We may be subject to a banking crisis as a result, in the form of a “favour-bank” default!
Karmenu Vella il-Guy responsibabbli ghat-‘theatres’ – nahseb ser jingwalawa huwa w Kenneth Zammit Tabona tac-coff.
Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Simplification of Administrative Processes: Dr Michael Farrugia
Execution: A jerrycan full of petrol and a lighter.
Mepa’s in Castille, so was Sandro Chetcuti last Monday.
In the meantime, Astrid goes into hibernation unless she is appointed as a consultant.
D’haw ma kienux ghamlu ghageb ghax Home Affairs and Justice were within the same ministry? Kemm nesewha f’malajr id-diska!
Didn’t Joseph Muscat then Leader of the Opposition state that a Labour government would drastically cut public spending?
His first initiative as Prime Minister has considerably gone astray. His new cabinet is the biggest one in the last 25 years and would surely cost much more than the outgoing Nationalist cabinet.
On his second day in office Joseph has already gone back on his promise on public spending.
we also have to include the increase to 14 permanent secretaries as there will be one for each minister
Is there an adjective to describe people like Franco Debono?
“At least two separate persons are responsible for justice and home affairs,” Franco Debono said. “It’s an improvement over the situation under Carm Mifsud Bonnici. Justice doesn’t necessarily merit a ministry unless you add other responsibilities to that portfolio. It’s not that vast.” (MaltaToday)
So now under Labour it’s ok but under the PN it was not ok to have justice and home affairs under one ministry.
Dr Godfrey Farrugia issa huwa l-Ministru tat-tnehhija tal-waiting list tal-isptar Mater Dei.
Jekk jdewmukom biex jaghqduq, jew tonqoskom xi mhadda meta tkunu hemm, issa ghandkom fejn tirrikorru.
Chris Fearne must be fuming, or the private sector.
In case you’ve missed it it’s on Super One again.
It seems that Labour still thinks that education is there only for employment purposes.
Even more pathetic is research and innovation divorced from the economy.
University will become one byzantine empire, to each their little fiefdom.
Ministry for the Family and Social Solidarity
Minister: Ms Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Do they mean the one who had extramarital affairs and broke up two marriages in the process?
Ghal min hu nteressat, diga harget public tender ghall-imhaded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E331tcAvl4M
Apart from Leo Brincat and Karmenu Vella… not a bad team at all.
Fl-ahhar waslet il-bidla li ilni nistenna.
Imma miniex cert jekk id-dinosawri gewx qabel il-ministri jew le peress li team zghazugh.
Also Franco said it is OK for the justice and home affairs to be under the same minister after last year’s fiasco.
23 Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries?
The PN had 12. Is this a tacit admission that every PN ex- Minister was worth 2 MLP Ministers?
Speaking of cost. Remember that 500€ that Labour were always bleating about? That is looking decidedly like peanuts now, when one considers all the expenses and perks this Ministerial crowd are going to cost the exchequer.
Hu go fik Franco. Ara x’wiehed wahhalek.
Bahnan, l-gustizzja taht segretarju parlamentari fil-ministeru tal-intern.
Ejja helu tkellem u pprotesta.
PBS taht il-ministeru tal-intern. Erm, StudioMaster anyone?
Minister for health services: Godfrey Farrugia
Applicants for community homes around Malta: His lover
Chairman of the MCST: Her ex-husband
Permanent guest on ONE breakfast show: His wife
I can see it already:
What scientific conclusions provide evidence that homes in the community provide a better health, sorry wellness, service?
With all these fossils back as ministers, the only surprise is that we don’t have a Minister for Archaeology.
Loved this comment.
How does one implement an electoral manifesto? Surely they mean their electoral programme?
Simple, both MEPA and Lands are needed to cash the cheque promised to the boat house people.
Misfiled this should be a reply to Jozef :S
Where is the Ministry for the Implementation of Rowt Mepps?
The Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure, perhaps?
They didn’t have an electoral programme. They have a manifest elettorali:
http://election.josephmuscat.com/manifest-elettorali/
Excuse me, but does anyone know of any countries that are not foreign to Malta?
George Vella is responsible for Relations with Foreign and Commonwealth Countries
Joe Mizzi is responsible for coordinating major government projects. That would include Konrad’s power station and gas terminal.
My, I can’t wait to see the fur fly.
Joe Mizzi always declared that he knew exactly where we could find oil . Come on Joe start digging
Utter rubbish! Same old faces, and I guess we are back to 1996, if not the 1980s.
We know nearly all of them – ‘been there, done that’ indeed – and we know what they are incapable of doing.
It is Dr Mallia who caught my attention most. First he was againstthe MLP, he even wrote a book against them, and now look at him – a pure opportunist taking an oath as a Labour minister.
Ghal gol-hajt.
So, after all that criticism home affairs and justice are one ministry.
It’s easier to fool people than for them to realise they’ve been fooled.
‘Mark Twain’.
Watching Realta’, Joe Mifsud’s missing.
Does it mean we’ll start receiving letters who gets to install a solar panel?
He’s in Rome.
No. The letters will be addressed to “Dear Philip.”
New Prime Minister, new Cabinet, new Pope, new teeth. Life is beautiful.
New prostates, new hips, new walking sticks.
Hooray, Birkirkara’s the place to invest.
The €500 per week pales when you consider that each Minister is allocated 21 staff and each PS 11 staff plus themselves. This government’s resources are 15×21 + 8×11 + 15 + 8 = 426 top salaries. Compare that with the evil GonziPN with a mere 8 ministers……
U le… kollox kostid hi!
u mintix issemmi il paga ta KASCO ic CHIEF OF STAFF miskin telaq il business
Tghid kellu xi weghda fir-rowt mepp li jaghmel tnaqqis ta’ 25% fuq is-salarji individwali tal-Ministri u Segretarji Parlamentari?
I believe Gonzi also stated that he would have added more ministers if elected.
Let’s hope they deliver, and if they do, it’s justified.
That awkward moment when a lousy ex lecturer of yours becomes finance minister.
Hear hear. Lousy lecturer, lousy debater and lousy economist.
I bet there are some Professors in the Faculty of Education rubbing their hands, some in joy, some in dread.
Good luck guys. Some of you deserve dear Varist, the others should watch their necks.
Exactly my same thoughts!
What a mess. Take sea transport: one ministry is in charge of maritime affairs, another of external transport and the third of internal transport (e.g. water taxis and Gozo ferries).
The EU integrated maritime policy seeks to integrate maritime transport with other policies but we dissect it into bits.
Did they ask the Perm Rep to the EU for advice? It’s going to be impossible to coordinate Ministerial Council participation, let alone a Presidency.
Wasn’t it a huge problem to have Home Affairs and Justice in the same ministry? So its not a big deal any more? Where’s Frankie Tabone now?
Oh no, what about Silvio Parnis! No minister for the south?
All the Cabinet is for the South. It’s the direction our country is taking with this government.
Wait a minute, the Minister For Tourism has huge interests in the tourism industry. Isn’t that a conflict of interest?
Just wait for the package tours.
@Nighthawk – my thoughts exactly.
Maybe they will tell us that he will resign all his directorships, like Keith tal-Kasco?
But what about his shareholdings?
Their names speak enough without any comments
From one Klikka to another.
Karmenu Vella, George Vella, Varist Bartolo and Leo Brincat.
Same ole, same old, lessons not learnt either I see.
Jose Herrera, PS responsible for the Archives!
Marlene Farrugia? Nothing? And to whoever says (as I have already heard it said) but they gave her partner a Ministry, excuse me? How much more insulting can one get, to think that she will be satisfied with what her partner got. So patronising and sexist.
Interesting how the pro European members of the party have been put aside.
Ian Borg, negotiating funding from the EU? Give me a break!
Ministry for the Implementation of the Manifesto? Why does it sound like something out of Harry Potter?
I thought that is the collective responsibility of all Ministers and the Prime Minister, not of one person?
Why have 14 Ministers if they are not each responsible for the implementation of their promises?
Interesting also how MEPA remained under Joseph. Is this because he wants to increase efficiency, or because he has to honour promises made?
Having national regulatory bodies in the same ministries as the operators goes against the independence criterion in EU legislation. I’m smelling infringement procedures on their way.
A few initial comments:
– So is Transport Malta going to be disbanded again, since roads are under Mizzi, air travel is under Vella and maritime is under Cardona?
– How is Leo Brincat’s portfolio of sustainable development going to work with the PM’s office re MEPA? And with MRA under Konrad Mizzi?
– Who is Leader of the House?
– Is Public Works (as an entity) being disbanded?
– Wasn’t it the PL which criticised the PN for putting Justice and Home Affairs in one Ministry?
– Malta Statistics Authority under Finance Ministry – what is this? The NSO? (National Statistics Office)?
– Occupational Health and Safety under Health? Why? Should it not fall under Consumer Affairs possibly?
Why do we live?
How does Santa climb down a chimney and still manage to eat his cookies wearing red?
Leo Brincat’s Ministry for Sustainability is already looking unsustainable.
Besides the dinosaurs, the obviously planned a while ago (Konrad), those set-up for a fall (Louis Grech whose Ministry at least according to the announcement during the ceremony includes “it-twettieq tal-manifest”), the too young and incompetent, etc, it is worth taking note of what Muscat kept to himself:
Information & Gov Press – between him and the dwarf, plenty of experience there. Expect press releases (or tweets) that sound like something from Maltastar. Also I wonder if he will find a new paper supplier.
Internal Audit and Investigations – expect a witch hunt. The pity is that the %$€er died but then again they would not go that far back in their “digging”.
Public Administration & Strategic Policy Coordination – these will be run by Mario Cutajar.
In essence Muscat (a) passed the buck on pretty much everything barring PR and (b) will probably be the main bearer of pitchfork & torch to hunt out hofor and other things to use to justify his legislature of, at best, mediocrity.
I’d like to know what expertise Helena Dalli has to share concerning the medicines authority.
What a mess – where does one start? What the hell does Public Broadcasting have to do with Home Affairs? or Local Government with Culture?
I guess it was too much to ask for there to be logic on the part of Labour.
Interesting how Muscat has kept for himself anything to do with property.
Sounds like this is an expensive Cabinet. Any idea how much is this going to cost us compared to Gonzi’s last Cabinet?
Well spotted AE.
Call it planning for the future.
Wara hafna interventi fuq One TV minn Dr Franco Debono dwar is-separazzjoni tal-Gustizja u l-Intern, kont nimmagina li dawn se jibqghu separati.
Ma kontx qed nistenna l-Gustizja bhala ‘Seg. Parlamentari’.
Rigward Dr Owen Bonnici kont narah aktar bhala responsabbli minn Zghazagh, Sport u Kultura aktar milli dwar il-Gustizzja filwaqt li Dr Herrea ma narahx assocjat daqstant ma Kultura u Gvern Lokali. Il-Kunsilli / Regjuni fadallhom fejn jizviluppaw u kont nipreferi li dwarhom kien jinhatar politiku li trawwem sew fijhom qabel kien elett fil-Parlament.
Nahseb li dan huwa wiehed mill-akbar Kabinett ta’ Gvern fl-istorja politika ta’ Malta u ta’ min inkunu nafu l-ispiza li l-poplu se jkollu jhallas biex dawn joperaw ta’ kuljum partikolarment wara kritika qawwija li kienet issir fil-passat ricenti dwar l-ispejjes tal-Ministeri.
It’s telling that the two token women are responsible for consumer affairs (shopping) and family affairs (Labour knows a woman’s place).
Feels like we just went back in time.
Dr. Chris Cardona, Minister of the Economy, Investments and small business. Interested to know whether pole-dancing bars and nightclubs fall under his responsibility.
If in the affirmative, good move from Joseph as I understand that Chris has become quite an expert with his frequent visits.
I thought that Marlene Pullicino (excuse me Farrugia) was the speaker for energy.
I did not realize she was not elected.
Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights: Mr Roderick Galdes
Animal Rights? Animals don’t have rights.
Who is responsible for Airmalta?
Ajma hej, taht Manuel Mallia spiccajt.
,,,and so let the party begin..
Herrera was on Super One this morning. He’s a good lawyer.
He pointed out for all those who want to hear that he has been working and shadowing Justice for the past five years, holding weekly committees with all concerned.
He continued by saying: “Issa qiieghed hawn u nahdem fuq xi haga ohra.”
U min gewwa jkun kompla jghid “F’gh*xx, Muscat”.
We are forgetting that the present government has a HUGE majority in Parliament and, with a smile, they can say, we do what we like and you just have to stick it.
Regarding Herrera; although I am a PN, yet I think that he has been harshly treated. His mistake is that he accepted – very undignified.
With all the jobs now delegated. What is Joseph going to do?
Swan around and pose for photographs.
Go to the gym and stick KPI’s up on his office wall.
KPI is for Key Performance Index , or better known in business jargon , screw the others before they screw you.
Walk up and down Republic Street with wife and children, acting like the Royal family.
Did he get himself a convertible presidential cars to tour the country as yet?
I have often visited Dr Godrey Farrugia’s clinic in Zebbug. Whilst sitting in the waiting room, opposite the receptionist/nurse in charge, l cannot fail to notice people walking in, going straight to the receptionist, asking for a sick leave certificate, either for themselves or for someone else.
The receptionist asks for the length of duration required for sick leave, person answers accordingly….et voila.
X’ma jitlaghax mal-ewwel?
U l-Ministru tas-sawt, miskin?
Ministry for European Affairs and Implementation of the Electoral Manifesto
This IS weird , so what’s the responsibility of the prime minister?
Would we be told that Joseph did not deliver because Louis was the GUY responsible for the Implementation of the Electoral Manifesto?
If the minister for EU affairs is Louis Grech, what would George Vella be doing as foreign minister?