Minister for Communications and Projects Austin Gatt of Malta

After the 2003 general election, in which Gatt was re-elected from the First District, he was moved to the post of Minister of Information Technology and Investment, with Industry being added to his portfolio in 2004 after the resignation of John Dalli from Cabinet.
After the March 2008 general election, Gatt was appointed as Minister for Communications and National Projects with responsibility for IT, the Water Services Corporation and Enemalta, Malta Shipyards and the roads on March 12, 2008; he lost responsibility for industry at this time.
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Gatt was codenamed as a - 'L-iktar Bniedem Alabiebu ta Malta.
Gatt has gained popularity by clearly stating in public that he will not even take notice of what the people say and implments what he would like to implement.
his education at the Lyceum and the University of Malta.
in a number of constitutional cases.
Secretary General of the Party on 5th February 1988.
re-elected to Parliament in 2003, from the First District.
portfolio of Minister for Information Technology and Investment.
married to Marisa nee’ Zammit Maempel, and has two sons, Gege and Paul.
Gatt said that though this year's EU report gives Malta good cause to celebrate, the challenge of remaining on top will require Malta to reinvent the eGovernment and anticipate developments.
IT Minister Austin Gatt said that the government's excellent results in eGovernment were not attained by coincidence or because othe EU member states did not have the capacity to provide excellent eGovernment.
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The Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, Education Minister Louis Galea and Investments Minister Austin Gatt had a meeting on November 02, with the General Workers' Union on the job cuts at the Denim Services Ltd.
The redoubtable Austin Gatt has become a veritable minder for Lawrence Gonzi.
Schoolyard bully that he is, Gatt has revelled in standoffs with union men, bus drivers, Labour, the media, the hecklers and the critics, and those who stand in the way of his self-styled reformism.
But before setting off for battle and liberalise the service, Gatt was going to have to take on the transport unions.
Of course, Gatt was never going to attempt a moral conversion of the strikers to his lofty aims.
or heroically announcing that an “ODZ is ODZ” – Gatt is allowed to subvert these pretensions by proposing an EU-financed main road right behind the Ghadira nature reserve and the Foresta 2000 afforestation project.
According to his Wikipedia entry, Gatt was this year dubbed as the most devil-may-care man in Malta (L-iktar bniedem alabiebu ta’ Malta) in the satirical Bla Kommixin spectacular.
GATT is an Austin-based discount travel company that caters to interline travelers -- active or retired airline employees and their families who fly free or at discounted rates.
GATT is open to buying more competitors, Juba says, but few remain.
Explaining the procedure, Dr Gatt said that each person using the systems was given an acknowledgement and a file was opened.
In 1988 Austin Gatt was elected Secretary General of the Nationalist Party.
Austin Gatt was re-elected to Parliament in 2003 and was appointed as a Minister for Information Technology and Investment.
Minister Gatt said that in today’s competitive locations and complicated film financing situation, incentives remain a prerequisite for productions and often determine the choice of where to film.
Minister Austin Gatt said that for the first time in Malta, a specific portion of available funds will be marked for difficult and low-budget films (less then € 100,000), thus granting access to local productions.
Minister Gatt said that 2008 looks promising with several productions lined up for the first half of the year.
Minister Gatt is not known as one to mince his words and has often attracted positive comments from this corner of the world of punditry.
He has now decided to take on that wonderful world of transport monopolies that stretches from shabby coaches to arrogant taxis to the last drives on this earth (funeral hearses): The Federation of Transport Operators threatens to wreak havoc if Gatts plans to liberalise these sectors materialise - and Gatt has already told them to bring it on.
Gatt is just an old guard politician spouting the same old line.
You say Gatt is an old style politician and then propose Delia as a new style leader? Sure.
Minister Austin Gatt said that if the Maltese businessmen want to be successful, then we have to look out of Malta.
Minister Gatt said that potential Maltese investors should look at Libya as a place for investment for the tourism sector, as this will expand.
conference organised by Metco yesterday.
island is well prepared for the new economy.
Gatt said the project makes Malta 'a centre for world-class activities providing top-notch career paths and well-paid jobs to our people, without any compromise with the high quality of the Mediterranean lifestyle.
IT Minister Austin Gatt said the system had been set up in association with the Chamber of Commerce to instil confidence in electronic commerce around Europe.
IT Minister Austin Gatt said that ‘This agreement renews the Governments commitment that an information society includes persons with disabilities and provides them with the key to lead a full life.
Attending an event organised by Aġenzija Appoġġ at the Playmobil Funpark in Ħal Far, Dr Gatt said that while childrens education was sacred for the government, so was their security.
Those following the programmes would be offered a job in the IT industry under a scheme through which the government would pay half the employees pay in the first year, Dr Gatt said during a visit to participants of the drug rehabilitation programme at the Caritas facility in San Blas.
Dr Gatt said that everybody seems to have fixed, absolute, ideas about Valletta all are experts, all dogmatic whether it be about the Opera House, City Gate, and so on.
Dr Gatt said that apart from the four big restoration projects such as the Opera House, City Gate and so on, Valletta did not need any huge investment.
The Maltese government has chosen Tecom Investments because the company has promised a strategic partnership and not just a financial investment, Maltese Investments, Industry and IT Minister Austin Gatt said after signing the agreement yesterday.
Investment, Industry, and IT Minister Austin Gatt said the new Lufthansa Technik hangar, big enough to maintain A380 aircraft, will be completed and ready to operate with its first employees by October 2008.