such as ministers' travel and its fleet of cars, it could have saved the taxpayer some increases.

She said when the UBP was in power there was a pool of cars for ministers to use when they had official business, but she said no minister was allowed to use a Government car for their own private use.

Now, she said, the taxpayer was paying for the fleet of Government cars, and their servicing and gas costs.

And she questioned what Cabinet Ministers put on their Government credit cards when they travelled abroad on business, and asked what they spent their $150 daily travel allowance on.

She said she believed there were occasions when the daily allowance was pocketed by ministers, and said quite often some of the daily allowance would be unspent, but claimed it was rarely given back to Government.

And she questioned an expense record from of one of Tourism Minister David Allen's overseas missions, and said many of the expenses, such as telephone calls, were listed separately from the daily allowance.

Health Minister Nelson Bascome said he was tired of hearing "rhetoric'' from the Opposition about what Government had failed to deliver.

He said it was nauseating and said if the UBP had done more by the way of providing affordable housing, and the like, the PLP would not have to make up so much time now.

And in answer to accusations by the Opposition that he had failed to meet his target of providing 100 new affordable homes, he said he had surpassed that.

He said Government had turned around 28 vacant or derelict properties, had an additional 44 from the private sector, had 25 at the Southside Development, 35 with the Bermuda Housing Corporation, and two with the Bermuda Housing Trust.

Mr. Bascome when he took up the position of Health Minister, the residential homes for seniors were in a "deplorable condition'', youngsters were being jailed with adults at Westgate, and the need for affordable housing had been neglected.

House coverage continues in Monday's Royal Gazette