PN leader Simon Busuttil said today that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat only spoke words but lacked action related to the migration issue Malta was facing.

He accused Dr Muscat of attending an EU summit which tackled migration and came back with nothing concrete in hand.

“Dr Muscat failed to achieve concrete measures and secure time-frames related to the EU’s action on migration,” Dr Busuttil said.

Dr Muscat this evening updated the House of Representatives with the outcome of the summit on migration.

Dr Busuttil said that the conclusions of a the EU’s task force for the Mediterranean 38 proposals are identical to the asylum and migration pact of 2008 and nothing different had been proposed to what was in 2008.

Dr Busuttil questioned why Dr Muscat was against the Migration Pact of 2008 and is in favour of the Task Force proposals when they were practically the same.

He also questioned why Dr Muscat had been against the voluntary burden sharing under a PN-led administration and now is in favour of burden sharing.

Dr Busuttil said that despite the PM’s words, the number of migrants landing in malta increased in 2012.

“You didn’t even manage to get anything concrete on voluntary burden sharing,” Dr Busuttil told Dr Muscat.

He accused the government of fanning flames of xenophobia.

In his reply, Dr Muscat said that Dr Busuttil was in a state of desperation today, describing his argument as "puerile", when he said Malta witnessed an increase of migrants than ever in 2012, under a Labour government.

“The way Dr Busuttil spoke makes the government seem as if it is voluntarily contributing to the increase in migration flows,” Dr Muscat said. 

"We are not satisfied with the migration situation," Dr Muscat said.