Dysfunctional Government

Sharon of Lost in Thought reminds us that the website of the Maltese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is still non-operational. It has been out of order for a number of months. I mentioned this on January 17th and Fausto comments on Sharon's blog stating that "it was certainly dysfuntional on 26 December, the day of the tsunami tragedy in South Asia, when people were desperate for information on relatives who had travelled to the area". I posted this comment to Lost in Thought:

The point of my comment was to indicate that the MFA website has been down for MUCH longer than a month - and I am not sure how long before Jan 17 since it was last operational. I asked people from the ministry but, in typical fashion, nobody knows exactly who is responsible and they were all evasive in their answers. Very representative of our Public Service culture. In 'normal' and 'functional' countries, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a highly developed and informative window to the world!