The need for improvements to be made to the way Parliament operates has long been a topic of discussion in Malta. Indeed this newsroom has brought up the need for certain changes in the past. Recently, in an interview with The Malta Independent on Sunday, PN Whip Robert Cutajar said that although the Maltese Parliament is modelled on the Parliament
Speaker Anġlu Farrugia on Wednesday urged MPs to consider updating parliamentary rules after noting that they currently do not provide timeframes within which parliamentary questions must be substantively answered. He made his call after Nationalist MP Eve Borg Bonello said that over a period of six weeks she asked various ministers a total of 86 questions
Speaker Anġlu Farrugia has issued a ruling in which he called for a mechanism to be introduced to ensure that all parliamentary questions are answered in a timely manner. Parliamentary questions (PQs) are formal tools through which Members of Parliament can scrutinise those in government to hold them accountable in their operational and financial actions