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Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024): Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Labour Party on this motion but I would like it to do what Brendan Howlin did when he apologised profoundly for the disastrous abolition of borough councils, etc., under Better Local Government. Labour was in government from 2011 to 2014 and decimated housing construction. Its new leader says it will build 1 million houses. This is the problem. We have people who magic up...

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