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Indeed, in 2009, the Rural Affairs and Environment Committee, on which I served, produced a report on rural housing in which we drew attention to the problems that the 20-year rules were causing.I am very happy about the exemptions that the minister is suggesting.
Again, we and others criticised the early years of devolution as having produced a transport investment priority list that was partly pork barrel and partly political luck.
The issue has been discussed from every conceivable angle, committee after committee has been set up, and long-winded glossy reports have been produced, but little tangible progress has been made.
In reality, we are somewhere in-between. The civil service produces appropriate documents for approval by our elected representatives and we choose to consult on some matters and not others.
We try to accommodate that in our orders.When we produce controlled parking orders that involve residential areas, we also designate several mandatory bays for residential use.
It is clear that difficulties are involved in building affordable housing. How can we produce sustainable, environmentally friendly housing that is also affordable?
No, I am talking about your calculations. You have produced figures that show the amount that is allocated to rural development, and they show a real-terms reduction in the cash that is allocated to rural development.
First, they claimed that costs were out of control. When they were asked to produce the evidence, they could not. They then asked the Auditor General to construct the evidence, but he did not.