Opposition leader Bernard Grech vowed on Wednesday he will keep pushing for responsibility to be shouldered following the construction death of Jean Paul Sofia in 2022

In an initial reaction shortly after the publication of the inquiry report, he noted that the government was “found to be responsible for Sofia's death.”

Grech said that “it is not enough for responsibility to be carried by those who were directly involved in Sofia’s death”, vowing that the opposition would keep pushing for responsibility to be borne by “the people who employed them and the government that adopts an attitude of anything goes”.

The public inquiry’s report, Grech said, was “confirmation of why Robert Abela stamped his feet to try to stop Jean Paul Sofia’s mother’s request for a public inquiry”, adding that the government tried to “humiliate” her at various junctures.

Grech quoted several excerpts from the report, including sections which described the situation as a “classic comedy of errors” and others that dismissed the government’s claim that a public inquiry would interfere with the magistrate’s ongoing work.

He said that “all the recommendations in the report should be taken onboard immediately and not kept on the shelf, as happened in the Daphne inquiry”.