Watch: Government committed to ensuring everyone enjoys good quality of life - Muscat

The government is committed to making sure everyone in Malta enjoys a good quality of life, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Sunday morning, insisting this would be its main priority moving forward.
Addressing Labour Party supporters in Mosta, Dr Muscat said that the government’s main priority would be ensuring that the people’s ambitions and priorities are met.
“We do not scare people but we give them courage. That is why our families’ priorities are changing. Today, people’s biggest priorities aren’t jobs, high bills or the uncertainty of fluctuating fuel prices. They are now talking about a good quality of life.
“We will not just stop at talking about what we have managed to achieve, but about the quality of what we can do next,” he said.
While speaking about plans for the future, Dr Muscat insisted that it is also important “to keep in mind where we were when we left off”.
“We had 7,000 people had been registering for work. Today, that number has been reduced to 1,800 people,” he said, adding that young people and women who joined the workforce for the first time also managed to find work. 

On poverty, Dr Muscat said that this was a reality which the party believed...