Can you believe this was a question asked in Parliament during yesterday's session? Where will the holder of the lighting of the common area of a block of flats be placed?
This was highlighted by blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia on her site today:
L-Onorevoli SILVIO PARNIS staqsa lill-Onorevoli CHRISTOPHER SAID (Ministru tal-Ġustizzja, Konsultazzjoni Pubblika u l-Familja):
Jista’ l-Ministru jgħid fejn se ssir il-holder tal-bozza tal-komun ta’ flat ġdid li d-dettalji dwaru qed jintbagħtu separatament?
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Tweġiba:
Ninforma lill-Onorevoli Interpellant li normalment dan ix-xoghol fil-komun tal-blokka hu responsibli ghalih ir-rapprezentat tar-residenti tal-blokka. Minhabba li din il-blokk partikolari sal-lum ma hemmx rapprezentant, il-Sindku ta’ Hal-Tarxien offra li jaghmila ta’ koordinatur u biex jaghti stuzzjonijiet lil kuntrattur li intghazel mil-Kunsill stess.
Ghaldaqastant il-post fejn se issir il-holder tal-bozza fil-komun intaghzel mis-sindku ta’ Hal- Tarxien. Dan minhabba li qieghed jirrapresenta lil- residenti. Is-Sindku hu obligat jikkonsulta mar-residenti.
Incredible. Our belief in big government has got us to the level of asking for a Minister's intervention to decide where a group of residents are to place a lamp-holder. This level of government intervention is being shown to be synonymous with the current Opposition and future government-aspirant, which I already wrote about in a previous blog-post (More Big-Government). They believe government should dictate what a private company publishes in its leaflets, how autonomous bodies are administered, how autonomous representative unions conduct their elections, who should be allowed to speak or write, and now also where a lamp-holder is to be placed.
Thomas Jefferson's words come to mind:
“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
We should really start reflecting about this before expecting government to intervene here, there, everywhere.
This was highlighted by blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia on her site today:
L-Onorevoli SILVIO PARNIS staqsa lill-Onorevoli CHRISTOPHER SAID (Ministru tal-Ġustizzja, Konsultazzjoni Pubblika u l-Familja):
Jista’ l-Ministru jgħid fejn se ssir il-holder tal-bozza tal-komun ta’ flat ġdid li d-dettalji dwaru qed jintbagħtu separatament?
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Tweġiba:
Ninforma lill-Onorevoli Interpellant li normalment dan ix-xoghol fil-komun tal-blokka hu responsibli ghalih ir-rapprezentat tar-residenti tal-blokka. Minhabba li din il-blokk partikolari sal-lum ma hemmx rapprezentant, il-Sindku ta’ Hal-Tarxien offra li jaghmila ta’ koordinatur u biex jaghti stuzzjonijiet lil kuntrattur li intghazel mil-Kunsill stess.
Ghaldaqastant il-post fejn se issir il-holder tal-bozza fil-komun intaghzel mis-sindku ta’ Hal- Tarxien. Dan minhabba li qieghed jirrapresenta lil- residenti. Is-Sindku hu obligat jikkonsulta mar-residenti.
Incredible. Our belief in big government has got us to the level of asking for a Minister's intervention to decide where a group of residents are to place a lamp-holder. This level of government intervention is being shown to be synonymous with the current Opposition and future government-aspirant, which I already wrote about in a previous blog-post (More Big-Government). They believe government should dictate what a private company publishes in its leaflets, how autonomous bodies are administered, how autonomous representative unions conduct their elections, who should be allowed to speak or write, and now also where a lamp-holder is to be placed.
Thomas Jefferson's words come to mind:
“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
We should really start reflecting about this before expecting government to intervene here, there, everywhere.