Bastjan Dalli, brother of former Labour health consultant John Dalli, said that he supplied “a very small fraction” of the concrete used at Mater Dei Hospital.

In a statement issued to the media from John Dalli’s email address, Bastjan Dalli said that he “did this as a supplier to one of the subcontractors with whom I had a long standing relationship well before the Mater Dei Project started.”

Replying to what PN MP Claudette Buttigieg said on a national TV programme, Bastjan Dalli said that “in 1996 I never supplied concrete to the Mater Dei Project alone as there were always other suppliers/contractors involved.  I did not supply any concrete to Mater Dei from end 1996 onwards.I was never a subcontractor on the project.”

An investigation carried out by the government found that the concrete used at the hospital was weaker than that indicated in the specifications listed in the contract.