A war of words erupted in the House of Assembly over Wedco’s plans to build 100 prefabricated units at Dockyard.One Bermuda Alliance MP Mark Pettingill said no matter which way the Government spins it, “there was no consultation” with the tenants of Victoria and Albert Row.He claimed the only reason plans did not proceed with Habitat for Humanity Bermuda was because there was “no profit line” in it for Wedco.Government MP Zane DeSilva accused him of misleading the House.Undeterred, Mr Pettingill said: “The deal breaker with Habitat was that they wanted the sign-off to say that Wedco would not increase the rents once the places were built.”At that point, Wedco chairman and Government MP Walter Lister rose to his feet to call for a point of order.“That’s not true at all, and we shouldn’t mislead the House,” he said.Mr Pettingill continued: “We can play pedantic all night, the whole thing just reeks of the fact that the deal with the overseas company Clark International is more attractive business wise than the deal that could have occurred with Habitat and might still be able to happen.“Those 48 families that live there, the majority of them if not all, don’t want the new prefabs. Why isn’t the Government listening? Why haven’t they consulted the tenants?”Public Works Minister Michael Weeks said Wedco “had been consulting with the residents for three years”.“I went to a meeting with 80 residents myself, I’ve said that in the House on numerous occasions,” he said.Mr Pettingill replied: “At the time when you met, was it not a done deal. The truth will keep coming out and the truth is they did not consult; they told them what they were going to do and the tenants sat there like deer in the headlights.”Mr Lister said: “People have to take responsibility for themselves and we are prepared to join them, that’s why we had a meeting and invited the majority, who came. Only one person objected.”He claimed that the Opposition was bent on misleading the public and destroying a project that would benefit the people in the area.“I’m not going to take it lightly because I have worked, and many at Wedco have worked, on this for a very long time,” he said.Health Minister and construction boss Zane DeSilva meanwhile argued that the project would provide 18 months of work for many Bermudians who need jobs.“Ask anyone who does any of the trades involved if they don’t welcome this ‘short-term’ work,” he said.Mr DeSilva said that Government has responded to demands from both the public and the Opposition to build more housing, and now the Opposition is begging them to stop.Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards said that he and Opposition leader Craig Cannonier made a visit to the West End facility just days earlier and spoke with residents.“They know the difference between consultation and informing,” he said. “They said that Government informed them what the Government plan was. They said they were not consulted.”He said while the exteriors where in a state of disrepair, the residents had worked hard and invested their own money into improving the interiors.And Mr Richards said the residents believed that the housing project was merely a “sideshow” for a proposed marina project.“The real project is the marina,” Mr Richards said. “That’s where the money is. This is a sideshow. They know that. They told me.”Area MP Michael Scott said that in all of the consultation he had not heard the residents mention the marina project once. He alleged that Mr Richards was using the marina and the Habitat for Humanity proposal as a Trojan horse to turn residents against the project.“It’s a reasonable proposal that Wedco put to these tenants that we will have increases in rents but they will live in new homes,” he said.“They will be saving money on Belco bills. They will be saving money on repairs. They will have one thing to focus on, their rent.”