Moonilal was defending Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar during the debate on the wiretapping bill.
Manning had raised questions about a house being built in south Trinidad, claiming the "Kamla mansion" was costing $150 million.
He demanded to know where the funds were coming from and asked that the media have access to the private property.
In response, Moonilal said, "The member sought to impute improper motives on the Member for Siparia and indeed her family over the construction of a private dwelling of someone who has been in public life for 24 years, and an attorney of law for decades, a professional, and whose spouse, Mr Speaker, with great respect, is a medical doctor, professional practising for decades."
Moonilal said Manning's claims were "fabricated and false", and suggested that the former prime minister was exhibiting "some portrait of delusion".
Moonilal told MPs Persad-Bissessar's private home has been under construction for the past seven years on land purchased over 20 years ago.
He reminded the House that while Manning "sought in the most incredible manner to suggest the Member of Parliament for Siparia should open their private residence to the media, but when he was prime minister he never opened a house built by the taxpayers to the media".
On another issue, Moonilal, who is the housing minister, said he has discovered that Manning used his office to secure house from the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) for the brother of his spiritual adviser, Rev Juliana Pena,
"He facilitated the brother of Mrs Pena to obtain a house from the Housing Development Corporation, Mr Speaker. The former prime minister commanded and demanded that the HDC provide a house to brother of Juliana Pena," he said.
Moonilal added, "We are not malicious, we are not an administration that is vindictive, nobody going to take back nobody house and so on,"
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