Deputy Ó Broin and his party were happy for 41 years to see Oscar Traynor Road lie idle.

The Sinn Féin Members just cannot take the truth this evening.

They are continually interrupting. Any Minister who tries to answer any questions, they just try to shout us down. We on this side of the House will not be bullied. We are focused on delivering homes for people.

During the last oral questions just before Christmas, Deputy Ó Broin actually asked in respect of Oscar Traynor Road to set aside the public spending code that governs value for money in this country. He said to set it aside.

I am just being honest with people. The Deputy is being found out.

We have a challenge. I thank the Deputy for the question. The Affordable Housing Act 2021, which I commenced in August 2021, laid the provisions for the introduction of two new affordable purchase schemes. This will see new homes made available via local authorities, the Land Development Agency and a new national first home scheme. The measures will primarily assist first-time buyers or those under the fresh start principle trying to purchase homes but unable to secure sufficient finance to do so. These will be ver…

We have delivered the most comprehensive affordable housing legislation that any Government has ever brought forward. That affordable housing legislation was supported by all in this House with the exception of eight Deputies. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan was one of those eight Deputies who voted against affordable housing for working people. He voted against cost rental, against affordable purchase delivered by local authorities and against the Home First shared equity scheme. Let us put that on record. We are not goin…

Dun Emer in Lusk, to which the Deputy referred, with this Government's support through the affordable housing fund, will be delivering homes for between €166,000 and €266,000. In Ballymastone in north County Dublin, there will be over 1,000 homes. I remind the Deputy that will include 258 social homes and 258 affordable purchase homes. The Deputy's colleagues in Fingal County Council actually voted against that.

The Deputy and his colleagues will always find a reason to oppose it. Regarding Oscar Traynor Road, they opposed the deal again there for effectively 40% social, 40% cost rental and 20% affordable purchase.

The Social Democrats opposed it. The Deputies opposite cannot contain themselves this evening.

Unfortunately people have found them out on this because they are not going to be able to deliver affordable housing for working people without the Government supporting it, which we are doing through Housing for All.

We are going to deliver a significant number of affordable purchase homes this year which I have outlined to the Deputy in my answer.

On top of that we are going to deliver cost rental, which the Deputy opposed by voting against the Affordable Housing Bill.

I thank Deputy McAuliffe for the work he continues to do on the housing committee with colleagues in government on delivering very important legislation such as the Affordable Housing Act and the Land Development Agency Act that enables us to ensure 2022 is a year of delivery. As the Deputy knows, under our housing strategy we aim to deliver 300,000 new homes between now and the end of the decade. This includes 90,000 social homes, 36,000 affordable purchase homes and 18,000 cost rental homes, while tackling the is…

I thank the Deputy. It is crucial that we use the land we have. The Deputy referenced Oscar Traynor Road. It is correct to say that because of the actions taken by the Government through increasing the affordable housing fund and allowing flexibility in it, Dublin City Council was able to rework the proposals, which were supported by 38 of the 60 councillors, to deliver 341 social homes, 341 cost rental homes and 171 affordable purchase homes. This is what Sinn Féin, far left and Social Democrat representatives in …

When they are losing, they play the person not the ball and that is the fact. We have a plan that will deliver for people and we are determined to do so. In the Deputy's constituency there are opportunities in Ballymun, and I have walked those sites with him, to deliver good quality affordable housing at scale for working people because we have put the funding in place. We passed the Affordable Housing Act. We have an affordable housing fund. We are now giving funding to our local authorities on a multi-annual basi…

-----but we will not hear them say this.

They will interrupt consistently-----

Again with regard to Oscar Traynor Road, O'Devaney Gardens, Ballymastone and I could go on and on, with any proposal that comes forward from any local authority the people to the forefront of objections and voting against it are the people opposite-----

-----and Deputy Ó Broin knows it.