We have a housing plan that is taking hold. It will work and the Deputies opposite should support it.

You never even responded-----

That is not true.

The Deputy is on the Official Record. Tell the truth.

It is not in the €4 billion-----

I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that this Government: — published its housing plan, Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland (Housing for All), in September 2021, with record levels of funding in place to support the delivery of the plan, and unprecedented guaranteed State investment of over €4 billion each year to support Housing for All, through an overall combination of €12 billion in direct Exchequer funding, €3.5 billion in funding t…

-----that have been referenced here already. We are working with every tool available to us to drive down the numbers in homelessness. The approach to homelessness has to be housing-led. It has to be about increasing supply across all tenures - social housing, affordable housing, private housing and rental housing. Deputies have referenced the lack of rental housing on the market. Some Deputies have bemoaned the amount spent on HAP. I think it was Deputy Mitchell who referred to the €1 billion being spent on HAP an…

In Sinn Féin's most recent budget manifesto, the only proposal relating to rental properties was to add a €400 second home tax on individual landlords, the very mom and pop landlords Deputy Ó Broin says he wants to keep in the market. That was the Sinn Féin proposal. Let us get back to the facts. The reality is that housing is not a political game. Deputies should not be playing with people in this space. What we have to show people is a realistic way to increase supply and deliver affordable housing. The Affordabl…

They do not believe the LDA should even plan for houses. Do they want the four planning applications for 2,400 homes recently lodged by the LDA to be refused? Do they want to see those homes built? Maybe they do not. That may be the reason that, as we discussed earlier-----

Deputy Gould should try to behave himself, please.

Tá brón orm, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will not state the obvious, but the reality is that there is a need to build supply up, and supply is increasing. Supply is increasing across the board, albeit not to the levels we need. We need to go further. To March 2022, we had the highest number of residential units completed since 2011. That is 22,219 new homes. It is not possible to go from 20,000 homes to 40,000 homes in 12 months. If the Deputies opposite are telling people they can do so, then they are lying to them…

It is very difficult to continue with the repeated interruptions.

There is a need to build up supply and capacity across all tenures. Housing for All will deliver, and is delivering, the single biggest social housing programme in the history of the State. It is doing that. It will deliver thousands of new social homes this year. I believe in homeownership but I do not believe Sinn Féin does. Sinn Féin has railed against the help to buy scheme which has helped more than 30,000 households to get a deposit together to buy a home. Over the past 12 months, first-time buyers comprised …

Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Try to behave yourself, please.

I am stating a fact.

Last year Deputy Ó Broin said in this House that it was going to be a second mortgage, which was going to be at 6%, 7% or 8% interest. It is not a second mortgage. It is an equity stake that the State is taking to help the thousands of people the Deputy said he wants to help-----

That is just the usual trite nonsense Deputy Ó Broin goes on with. The fact of the matter is there is a scheme here-----

Right now there are people paying rents above the level they should be paying. People are paying-----

The Deputy tabled the motion. Does he want a debate or not? Will I sit down? The reality is I am about delivering policies that positively impact-----