You rejected CSO data last year.

That is not true.

I thank the Minister, Deputy Browne, for opening the discussion on the recent unprecedented storm. The Minister has focused on the response to the storm from a whole-of-government perspective and I will focus my remarks on the impact this storm had on the electricity network. Before I turn to that impact, I acknowledge that, as of this morning, 18,000 customers still remain without power. The priority for this Government has been and remains to ensure the safety and well-being of our citizens by assisting in the re…

People will not get a mortgage on them.

It is true, Deputy Ó Broin.

People earning over €90,000.

The Deputy should be down in the Abbey.

Anois, an fhírinne. Ní aontaím leis an Teachta Doherty. Tá Sinn Féin i gcoinne gach rud agus gach plean a chuireann an Rialtas os comhair an phobail. Tá sé soiléir go bhfuil siad i gcoinne úinéireacht tí. Tá siad i gcoinne an deontais do dhaoine atá ag iarraidh a gcuid tithe féin a cheannach don chéad uair. Tá siad i gcoinne tithe ar phraghas réasúnta agus i gcoinne an scéim cíos agus ceannach. Tá sé sin soiléir freisin. Nílim cinnte cad iad na rudaí a bhfuil siad ar a shon, ach tá mé fíorchinnte faoi na rudaí a bh…

I can give loads of examples. The Deputy's party in this city alone-----

I did not interrupt the Deputy once.

The Deputy's party-----

Tá an fear feargach ar ais arís.

Stop for a second; just relax. It will disappoint Deputy Doherty that we will exceed our target substantially this year, as we have done in every year of Housing for All. We have delivered 125,000 new homes. More than 500 first-time buyers a week are drawing down their mortgages using the supports this Government brought in, such as the help-to-buy grant. For people watching in, the help-to-buy grant is €30,000 of the tax they paid back in their pockets to help with their deposit. More than 50,000 households have c…

Beidh díomá ar an Teachta because déanfaimid níos mó ná ár sprioc an bhliain seo. Táim cinnte faoi sin. We will deliver high 30,000s or early 40,000s this year. I talk to people who are building and I am out around the Twenty-Six Counties of the Republic. Deutsche Bank's report confidently predicts over 40,000 units this year. Cairn, one of the home builders, also predicts over 40,000 this year. The Deputy should know but probably does not that the highest level of delivery last year and in previous years was in th…

Come on, Deputy. Stop now.

Pearse, can I-----

The fact of the matter is this Government delivered more new social homes last year than has been done in 50 years and will do more this year. We will achieve our social housing new-build targets this year and will exceed our affordable housing targets this year. We have more first-time buyers than we have had since 2006 with the supports we have brought in, which the Deputy would get rid of. He and his party are against homeownership.

Your plan should be called "A home you'll never own" because what are you replacing our supports with?

Excuse me, Deputy. You are going to ask people to buy a property on land they do not even own-----

-----tell them who they can sell it to, how much they can sell it for and where they will live.