Independent MP Konrad Mizzi has finally agreed to appear before the Public Accounts Committee to respond to questions about his role in the controversial Electrogas power station project.

Mizzi has twice refused to attend. Earlier on Tuesday, the PN MPs on the committee filed a motion asking Parliament for a vote to be held ordering Mizzi to appear, ahead of the Parliamentary session that would see the Prime Minister speak about the budget.

In response, Mizzi issued a statement on Facebook. "Today, a few hours before the Prime Minister's Parliamentary discourse about the budget, the Nationalist Party filed a motion so that I would attend a Public Accounts Committee meeting. This motion is nothing but an attempt to deviate attention from the Prime Minister about the 2022 Budget. While in the past weeks I chose not to attend, according to the rights granted by the committee guidelines, today, in order not to let the nationalists disrupt the government's work and the Prime Minister's speech, I decided to attend the committee."

PN MPs had been arguing that Mizzi's refusal to attend had been an insult to Parliament.