Simon Busuttil grilled at Għarghur PN club over trapping
MEP and deputy leadership hopeful tells trappers that government was powerless on EU’s trapping limits.
10 November 2012, 12:00am
Nestor Laiviera
Nestor Laiviera
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MEP Simon Busuttil.
Nationalist MEP and PN deputy leadership hopeful Simon Busuttil endured his own 'grilling' earlier this week at the PN's Gharghur club, over the hunting and trapping situation and the limits imposed on the season by the EU's Birds Directive.
During a dialogue he hosted at the 11th district club - the same constituency he will be contesting in the forthcoming general elections - Busuttil was asked pointed questions on the situation of trapping, which is banned by the EU's Birds Directive but allowed in Malta under very limited conditions for song thrush and golden plover.
"His answers to the questions on trapping, and the government's performance so far in approving the hunting and trapping season, was that basically nothing can be done," a member of the audience who spoke to MaltaToday said.
A spokesperson for Busuttil declined to confirm the gist of the MEP's reply, who told his audience that trappers should accept that the government was not in a position to provide less onerous trapping circumstances. "Mr Busuttil's reply was rather long and comprehensive. In his reply, he explored Malta's background on hunting and trapping, Malta's accession to the EU, and how the situation subsequently changed, leading up till the point we are at today," the spokesperson said.
"It is inevitable that not everyone will agree," the spokesperson added, saying Busuttil's reply touched upon various points.
In September, the government had announced a trapping season whereby trapping of song thrush would be allowed between October 20 to December 31, and Golden Plover between October 20 and January 10.
The Government however imposed limits whereby not more than 5,000 song thrush and 1,150 Golden Plover may be caught throughout the season.
Also, not more than three birds may be caught every day by each trapper, with a season's bag limit of six birds per licence.
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SIMON BUSUTTIL: iMMA INT X'KONT GHIDTILHOM LIL.KACCATURI U N-NASSABA LEJLIET IR-REFERENDUM DWAR IS-SHUBIJA FL-ue , META BGHATTULHOM GAZZETTA SHIHA ? MhUX LI SE JKUN POSSIBBLI LI JUBQGHU JONSBU U JIKKACCAW BHAL MA KIENU GHAMLU SA DAK IZ-ZMIEN, GHAX IKUNU JISTGHU JUZAW DEROGI ???
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simon ilpartit tijak inkluz int hlief Paroli Paroli matafux tajdu ghax ma tajc li thaqtu bull poplu malti kollu kif ukoll ingannawtuh fkollox
is siegha waslet Simon iolPoplo mhux se jerga itikom il Poter isthu idrhu quddiem in nies
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The longer and more convoluted an answer, the less of an answer it is. Let us hope Simon will come clean, and not copy Gonzi's, brazilian, egg-on-face humiliation.
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Sinjuri Nassaba u Kaccaturi, ejja nfakkarkhom kemm dan Simon Busuttil ghadda zmien bikhom ghax qabel ir-referendum tal-UE weghdkom li kollox kien se jibqa kif dejjem kien. Issa tafu sewwa x'issarraf il-kelma ta' Simon Busuttil.
U lil dawk kollha li jhobbu surfing fuq l-internet infakkarhom li kien Simon Busuttil u siehbu David Casa li kienu ppruvaw ibellghuhielna li l-ACTA hija tajba ghalina lkoll. Afdawh lil Simon Busuttil! Kif ghid il-Malti: Kutu kutu u qrunu f'butu!
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Gharghur makes part of the 9th not 11th district.
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Whats happening to All those countries forming part of this EU Club? All EU citizens are loosing their rights, e.g to work, to have a house, to have a family, to enjoy their pastime like hunting and trapping, their Indipendence and soon the right to live. Malta should have never joined this club. Dom Mintoff was right, did we join Cain's or Abel's Europe?????
We are loosing all the things we used to enjoy including the benefits other countries were jealous off. The diadavantages are outweighing the advantages if there are any???
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Jien m'hiniex kaccatur imma nirrispetta lil hbieb min tieghi li huma kaccaturi serji: dawk tal-fenek, tas-summin, tal-gallini u tal-gamiem. Irrabjati hafna dawn, mhux ghax mhux se imorru ghall-kacca, imma ghax l-Partit ta Simom Busuttil u RCC laghbu loghba mahmuga bil-passjoni taghhom!
Igor P. Shuvalov •
This was bound to happen when one takes in consideration that Simon Busutill was running the EU show and did not in any way warn trappers that what they were being promised by the Government might in the future reach a situation when 'basically nothing can be done' to change the EU directives which are quite different from what was being promised.
