Konrad Mizzi’s toddler-like tantrums at the Public Accounts Committee meeting on Wednesday were certainly the talk of the town this week.

Many watched on with incredulity as the disgraced former minister – who is linked to most, if not all, of the major scandals that took place under the Muscat administration – protested his innocence and insisted that his only motivations were to give Malta cheaper energy bills and cleaner air.

Let’s face it … the sitting did not go as the Opposition would have liked. They expected a grilling, but got a hijacking instead. After he refused to show up four times, they probably expected Mizzi to make a fool of himself by refusing to answer any questions, just like he did before the Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry.

Instead, the former minister went into hysterics, lashing out at the PN MPs and wasting most of the sitting accusing them of being hypocrites and of having a sense of entitlement.

He slashed particularly hard at the committee’s chairperson, Beppe Fenech Adami, accusing him of being linked to a company that was investigated over drug trafficking.

Apart from the theatrics, Mizzi took a long time explaining the rationale behind the Electrogas project, arguing that Muscat’s government managed to do what previous Nationalist administrations had claimed to be an impossible task.

During the process, he brought up dirt from the PN’s past, including on how the BWSC extension was chosen, and how the PN had opted for heavy fuel oil instead of greener means of energy generation.

He almost made it sound as if the project was worth it, despite all the alleged corruption.

In fact, there was little talk about said corruption, simply because the sitting descended into chaos and Mizzi managed to deviate the conversation away from the real subject at hand.

But this was only the first in what will likely be a long list of sittings, and there will be plenty of time for Konrad Mizzi to be asked the important questions.

Questions like why Yorgen Fenech’s 17 Black was listed as a ‘target client’ for Mizzi and Keith Schembri’s offshore companies, which were only exposed thanks to the Panama Papers leak.

Maybe he can shed light on how confidential documents and correspondence from at least three projects he piloted ended up on Yorgen Fenech’s desk.

These included, according to a recent Times of Malta report, sensitive documents about the privatisation of Enemalta’s petroleum division, correspondence between the Maltese and Azerbaijani government on the provision of LNG, and government plans on the relocation of the ITS campus, from which Fenech planned to pocket a €5 million cut.

Maybe he can tell us if these issues were discussed in the “suspicious” conversations between him and Fenech that the police arrested and questioned him about in January 2020.

Or perhaps he will be able to explain if this was the reason why he allegedly urged Fenech to “delete Whatsapp” after Fenech lost his phone during a January 2019 trip to Miami.

Perhaps Mizzi can enlighten us further about Fenech’s closeness with other Cabinet members, including Rosianne Cutajar and Edward Zammit Lewis, and maybe his friendship with Joseph Muscat, too.

Perhaps, since it is also connected to Enemalta, Mizzi can shed more light on the Montenegro wind farm deal, from which Fenech’s 17 Black made millions in another apparently corrupt deal.

In all likelihood, Mizzi will refuse to answer these questions and will employ the same tactics he used on Wednesday.

We are also pretty sure that his Labour colleagues will do their best to stall, block and deviate, just like they have done over the past few weeks, when they refused to condemn his no-shows.

At the end of the day, there is only so much that the PAC can do.

It has no real powers to investigate. Being composed of PL and PN MPs, certain sittings will always degenerate into a partisan shouting match. The government has a majority and it could always rely on some help by the Speaker if things get bogged down.

The only real way for this story to be decided once and for all is for the police to launch an investigation, unless they have already done that, which we doubt, for Mizzi would have surely refused to speak to the PAC with the excuse that he could incriminate himself if that was the case.

This is a question that remains unanswered, even despite a three-day sit-in protest by activists in front of the police headquarters last week.

This apparent lack of action by the authorities only seems to embolden Mizzi and his colleagues, who will only dig their heels in deeper and do their best to keep the truth from coming out.