The Opposition United Bermuda party has blasted Government for a year of wasted opportunity since last year?s election win in which not one single home has been built.

Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons said: ?If we had been elected in July 2003 we would have been well on their way by now to completing 100 emergency rental homes.

?We would have put in place a programme to increase home ownership under our affordable homes plan.?

Opposition MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said Government had been lucky a private developer had come up with a plan for 200 homes at Southside because otherwise it would have looked like nothing had been achieved.

Wayne Furbert, the party?s housing spokesman, said Government had no social conscious.

?After one year, 365 days not one house has been built.?

He said recently the Bermuda Housing Corporation had talked in vague terms about about a housing block in Hamilton.

?We had the same thing about three years ago from Nelson Bascome.?

And the United Bermuda Party said the Government had failed to bring forward numerous pieces of legislation promised this year.

The list included

data protection legislation

establishing a community drug treatment centre

amending the Police Complaints Authority Act

to review and report on sports and workmen?s clubs in Bermuda

a cats bill

asbestos abatement legislation.

UBP House Leader and party whip John Barritt said: ?It?s poor planning and poor organisation.?

He questioned what had led to the delay and said a parliamentary draftsperson had been rehired and fired. ?I don?t know if that has anything to do with it.?

Government had been bogged down in its own political agenda with the push for independence and the doomed battle over GPS said Mr. Barritt.

?That was not an item in the Throne Speech but it was an item which the Government and people of this country became preoccupied with.?

Government also had been distracted with rifts, including the Renee Webb resignation, rather than focussing on the job in hand.

The Opposition have tried to pin down the Government through greater use of parliamentary questions but were often prevented from follow-up questions as the PLP filibustered past the 11 a.m. deadline, said Mr. Barritt.

Dr. Gibbons said Government had handled the Hurricane Fabian crisis well but goodwill had been squandered through the divisive GPS debate.

Mr. Barritt said Government had made nice noises on absentee balloting and the public?s right to information but little had been achieved.

And Dr. Gibbons said there had been no progress after talks on taking the racial sting out of elections. He said other countries had established a code of conduct on this.

Similarly, cross-party agreement on opening up the Public Accounts Committee, where a committee of MPs scrutinise finances, had failed to lead to publicly open sessions said Dr. Gibbons.

Louise Jackson said Government had been so slow to help seniors and that the roof had still not been repaired at Lefroy House.

Progressive Labour Party spokesman Scott Simmons declined to comment.