The Government notes that Mr Feetham recently stated on GBC and has repeated in a Press Release that the Expenditure of No 6 Convent Place, the Chief Minister’s Office for 2013/14 was 45% higher than the sum provided in the Approved Estimates and that Expenditure in that year for all Government Departments was £50M higher than the amount estimated.
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, is travelling to Seville to appear on Canal Sur Television. Mr Picardo has been invited on the breakfast show “La Tertulia del Buenos Dias” tomorrow at 10 in the morning.
This week the members of the Gibraltar Port Authority are attending IP Week events in London in order to promote Gibraltar’s services to senior representatives from the oil and gas industry. The event also allows Gibraltar Port Authority representatives, including Minister Paul Balban and Albert Isola and Captain of the Port, Commodore Bob Sanguinetti to attend the IBIA Gala Dinner.
The Opposition says that the announcement last week in Parliament that the shares formerly held by the Slovenian entity in Gibtelecom had been purchased by the Gibraltar Savings Bank “raises important questions which directly relate to the concerns raised by the Opposition in relation to the state of our public finances.”
The Chief Minister said he was completely satisfied that the Dr Giraldi Inquiry Report had dealt with every allegation of mismanagement and abuse in an “exhaustive and determinative” manner. The final cost of the Inquiry has just been revealed as totalling £2,642,453.
