This dogma-driven decision has nothing to do with increasing the supply of social housing. Sorry, Joyce. It has everything to do with shifting the blame for Labour’s total failure, after 17 years in power, to increase the supply of social housing. Actually, Deputy Presiding Officer, in the Newport area they tried to build those houses in the academic, the university campus. Today—only today—they actually allowed, to build social houses, to demolish one iconic church in Newport and to put a few houses. That also needs to be looked at: where the houses are going to be built. That is another area that the Labour Party should be considering: to tell all the councils that listed buildings or iconic buildings should not be disturbed.

The social housing crisis in Wales is a result of Welsh Labour missing building targets. In 2007, when I came here, there was a big project—a big target that you actually put in this Chamber: 25,000 houses, and you never achieved more than—[Interruption.] You never achieved more than 6,000. And, then, in the end, you said that it was only piloted. God help you.

Since 2004, successive Welsh Governments have been warned of an impending crisis unless they stepped up this house building. The previous Government was told by its own housing review that it would have to build at least 14,000 homes per annum until 2026 in order to meet housing demand, as David Melding has already mentioned. The Home Builders Federation states that poor planning and higher costs associated with building homes in Wales have compromised investment. That is another disaster of Labour’s attitude. They say that the more attractive planning and development environment in England means that the volume of permissions has increased by 49 per cent, while it is decreasing in Wales.

There are around 23,000 empty homes in Wales. Some are in need of renovation, yet the previous Welsh Government made only 7,500 empty homes available to re-join the housing stock. Deputy Presiding Officer, we need a new approach for housing in Wales: not one based on the failed left-wing socialist dogma of the 1970s, but one that meets—[Interruption.] One that meets the needs and aspirations of our people—[Interruption.]