Question time in Parliament on Tuesday started off with Health Minister Joseph Cassar declaring that "the use of graves is related to deaths"! There are 15,538 graves at the Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery but, he said, it was difficult to say how many were still in regular use. Although public graves were regularly used, there were private graves that had not been used for several years.
Dr Cassar was answering a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Jesmond Mugliett.