PL says Cristina had to bear responsibility for bad decisions
Labour MP Owen Bonnici says Dolores Cristina had to bear responsibility for decisions which resulted in hundreds of students missing out on student exchange programmes.
The PL spokesperson on Higher Education, University, Research and Culture, Owen Bonnici said that Family and Education Minister Dolores Cristina had to bear the responsibility of bad decisions that spoiled once and for all the chance for hundreds of tertiary students to experience the Erasmus programme.
Bonnici said "During the recent cabinet reshuffle, the Prime Minister chose to demote Cristina from the Social Affairs portfolio, a sector which she admitted, was close to her heart and was reconfirmed as Minister of Education. During her term, from May 2010 till November 2011, hundreds of tertiary students were deprived of their once in a lifetime chance to take the opportunity to study under the Erasmus programme."
"The European funds (Youth in Action and Life Long Learning) in the field of education were suspended due to financial mismanagement under the stewardship of Minister Dolores Cristina."
Bonnici said one of the three public officers who actually bore the responsibility for the Erasmus programme fund mismanagement, harshly criticized Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and Minister Dolores Cristina in public and another occupies a comfortable executive position.
"However, Cristina, never bore the responsibility and Lawrence Gonzi acted as if nothing ever happened," Bonnici said.