The country has yet to hear anything concrete about the government's promise to build Malta and Gozo a new gas-fired power station.

In Parliament on Monday night, Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi told the House that a new time-frame for the completion of Delimara II will be given in November. What, exactly, is that supposed to mean. To add fuel to the fire, pardon the pun, the Prime Minister on Tuesday told the press that the deal to buy cheap gas and oil from Libya was legitimate and that it all depends on Libya's ability to increase its production capacity.

His Libyan counterpart said his government was still evaluate the deal and that "they will come to a decision". Not exactly reassuring, is it?

But back to the power station issue. On Monday, the Energy Minister was supposed to make a detailed statement about the progress of the project, which was supposed to be completed by Spring 2015, as promised by the Labour Party in its election manifesto. But we did not get a detailed explanation. What we got was an attack on former Minister George Pullicino about a public building photovoltaic contract. The case does indeed merit investigation, but why try to divert people's attention away from the real issue? The real issue here is that the government promised to deliver a new power station, but it has absolutely no chance of getting that done within the timeframes it originally promised.

Then on Tuesday, the debate raged on as both the government and the PN held press conferences on the matter. On Tuesday, Dr Mizzi promised new timeframes once negotiations between government, Electrogas and Shanghai Electric Power are completed. He said that would be in November. Dr Mizzi said initial negotiations were quite speedy, but some technical snags have been found from an engineering point of view. When asked by this newspaper as to the final completion date, he said that he would prefer to remain cautious at this stage. In other words, we are just as much in the dark as we were before.

Also, we have the small matter of the Prime Minister saying that he had never pledged to resign if the power station was not completed on time, instead arguing that he had made that pledge in connection with reduction in electricity bills. This, of course, despite the fact that there are video clips of him saying that he would both before the 2013 General Election and after it. It would have earned him more kudos if he simply said that the power station would not be ready and that he would be staying on, rather than digging his heels in and refusing to budge on the matter.

One hopes that we are not in a situation where everything has stalled. The deal needs to be concluded as soon as possible and the government needs to deliver on its promise. Once it does that, then perhaps it can turn to the other promises which it also has not honoured.