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SDLP MLA BURNS: PPS14 HASN’T GONE AWAY, YOU KNOW
 

SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns said the PPS14 rural housing ban is alive and well and being enforced by the Sinn Fein-DUP coalition even though Martin McGuinness is claiming to have stopped it. 

He said: “A Sinn Fein leaflet commemorating the Good Friday Agreement contains a fanciful list of supposed achievements, but there is one that really takes the biscuit. Martin McGuinness claims that he has stopped PPS14. Someone is going to have to tell him that the ban on rural housing is still there. It hasn’t gone away, you know. There are sons and daughters of farmers everywhere who can tell him all about it. The PPS14 housing ban is still in place, still being enforced by his DUP colleague Arlene Foster, still driving up the prices of houses and sites and causing incredible hardship.  

“Martin McGuinness’ claim is a fantasy, a fairy story on a par with Gerry Adams being let out of school early to found the Civil Rights Association. There are other fanciful claims in the leaflet, such as Conor Murphy having scrapped the ‘Double Water Tax’ even though he hasn’t actually taken a decision yet and seems to be doing his utmost to avoid taking one.