I propose to take Questions Nos. 9 and 10 together.

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There are 20 seconds each for Deputies McDonald and Kelly.

There is not much I can say in 20 seconds.

There is not.

I will take the 20 seconds to inform the Taoiseach, because he may not know, that his Fianna Fáil colleagues on Dublin City Council voted against the Oscar Traynor proposal because it was flawed. I have to break it to the Taoiseach that the days of gifting vast swathes of public land to private developers are over, as far as we are concerned. I had hoped, given the experience we have had of boom and bust and the hardship that has emanated from a broken housing market, that the Taoiseach would also have learned that lesson.

I do not think that is relevant to the question.

Some Fianna Fáil councillors have learned that so, who knows, perhaps there is hope for the Taoiseach yet.

I do not have enough time to engage on this topic. I remind the Taoiseach that the reason the then Minister, former Deputy Michael Noonan, brought in real estate investment trusts, REITs, in 2011 or 2011 was because the Taoiseach and his colleagues damn well destroyed this country with their housing policies. They were in bed with developers. The Taoiseach should not come in here and start throwing out commentary like that without reflecting on the fact that he did not have the guts to stand up to his own party. It took him until the very end, when he knew everyone else had fallen, to do that. He has some cheek to come in here and talk in the manner he has without reflecting on his own history and who he sat beside when decisions were made to destroy this country for generations.

Sometimes the truth can hurt.

The truth can hurt for the Taoiseach.

Deputy McDonald is very sensitive about the truthful and factual situation-----

I am not a bit sensitive. I am not remotely sensitive.

-----that Sinn Féin has opposed many housing projects.

Not at all.

That includes its opposition to the development on Oscar Traynor Road.

I am all for housing. I oppose homelessness.

I am clear that we need to get projects that are shovel-ready off the ground. We need to get them built.

The Taoiseach should get cracking.

We cannot go on arguing about a whole range of projects for another five or six years . That seems to be the Deputy's intention. We cannot keep on doing that on the issue of housing supply.

In response to Deputy Kelly's point, what I said was factual.

What I said was also factual.

I disagree with that.

History does not show it.

What we need right now is investment to get supply going.

Agreed.

The State is the biggest actor and player in housing at the moment in terms of funding and the provision of housing. That cannot be denied. However, we need more than that to get the volume of houses that are required for the young people of this country. That is what is required.