-----that is working on the ground.

Deputy Ó Broin, you might show some respect-----

I am endeavouring to do so. I did not interrupt Deputy Ó Broin once. I know he gets a little bit hot-headed from time to time. The reality is his plan is full of holes. His promise of home ownership is an illusion. It is a convoluted illusion of leasehold affordable purchase that not one bank has said it would lend to. It is a scheme that would restrict to whom people could sell their property and create a two-tier affordable housing system and a two-tier mortgage system. Deputy Ó Broin knows it will not work. That…

Deputy Ó Broin picks figures out of the sky because he believes they will be popular. The reality is the public sees through his alternative plan, which is a home someone will never own, because that it what Sinn Féin is proposing.

I take it very seriously. I have respect for this House, unlike you or your party.

It is their motion.

In fairness, you did not.

I think we have heard enough of the Deputy this evening, but carry on.

Affordability and the chance to own your own home are at the heart of this Government’s housing policy. Since 2021, over 8,500 housing supports have been delivered through the various measures we have established and are implementing with our delivery partners. Since the launch of Housing for All, close to 1,000 local authority affordable purchase homes at upfront affordable prices have been provided. The pipeline continues to grow because over 3,100 affordable purchase homes have been approved for funding support …

These schemes are working. We did launch Shanganagh Castle with enthusiasm because it is a wonderful development. I will invite the Deputy to visit Shanganagh Castle to see it because they are real homes, not an illusion of homes, for real people. I confidently predict every one of them will be sold. Households pay what they can afford, although the value of the home may be much higher. There is no arbitrary salary cap related to eligibility, unlike in Sinn Féin's scheme, where the limit is €90,000 for a couple. No…

The facts are, based on the returns received from local authorities for transactions completed this year, that the average upfront affordability purchase price paid by borrowers is €267,000 for a range of two-, three- and four-bedroom homes. Look at the difference between the scheme that is working on the ground and Sinn Féin's scheme, where purchasers do not even own the land the property is built on. In Sinn Féin's utopian world, it will tell people who they can sell the house to and at what price and, furthermor…

-----he would have to deliver homes. He knows the glossy brochure that Sinn Féin published will not do that, given he could not state earlier, even in respect of the home-you'll-never-own plan, that anyone will even lend to it. Sinn Féin will not even get development finance to lend to it.

I listened very intently to the Deputy and he did not answer the question.

We have already seen that the public are responding to cost rental. The Deputy knows that and it might disappoint him, but the Government's Housing for All plan, as he knows, targets the delivery of 18,000 cost-rental homes by approved housing bodies, AHBs, the Land Development Agency, which the Deputy would abolish, and local authorities, although he has not yet said how Sinn Féin will engage them to build properties. I have approved funding for the acquisition of cost-rental homes in O'Devaney Gardens and Oscar T…

That is what I said.

I have answered the question honestly on the record of the Dáil. I do not have a track record of misleading the Dáil. I have always been open and honest with people. The Deputy can laugh at that but his party's behaviour over recent weeks in that regard has been nothing short of reprehensible, so I do not think it is something to laugh about. I am not going to conflate the two issues, but when we put answers on the Dáil record or speak on the Dáil record, we do so honestly and openly with the information we have. M…

I have told the Deputy, on the record of the House, that they will be around €1,250, according to the information I have. The final rent figures have not yet been decided on. What I can tell the Deputy-----

-----and this will disappoint him, is that not only-----

The Deputy got away with this earlier on when he interrupted me consistently in the previous debate. I ask him to let me answer the question. He might not like-----

The Deputy's arrogance knows no limits and I would check it if I were him. We have delivered 2,180 cost-rental homes from nothing, and it might disappoint him to hear that the pipeline of cost rental amounts to 7,700 homes. Scaling up the delivery of cost rental, a tenure that did not exist before, will have a very positive impact on the private rental market as well. I meet those people who get their cost-rental homes. I can tell the Deputy, and he knows this from the report that was published by the Irish Council…