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Entities and organisations involved in the construction industry will be summoned by the Prime Minister during the week to identify measures which had to continue to be taken to make the sector safer, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Saturday. Speaking afConstruction entities, organisations to be summoned for talks
Entities and organisations involved in the construction industry will be summoned by the Prime Minister during the week to identify measures which had to continue to be taken to make the sector safer, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Saturday. Speaking after the collapse of a building in Mellieħa next to a construction site earlier in the day, the Prime Minister said clear responsibilities had to be carried in such cases. The Mellieħa incident, he said, had to be taken in the context of another seemingly similar incident, a boom in the construction industry, and the fact that people were asking how were human lives and safety to be protected in such cases. Without going into the merits of the case, Dr Muscat said that responsibilities in similar cases were clear. There were professionals who had a warrant to sign the papers and contractors had to follow instructions given by architects. The responsibilities were clear and could not be avoid it through any argument, he said adding the government was not waiting for tragedies to happen to take action. It had already announced it was uniting the regulatory authorities into one that would supervise closer similar works being... Read more