That is a matter for the Business-----

Can I answer the question?

This is pathetic.

Your behaviour is abhorrent. We support-----

We support first-time buyers. We have delivered affordable housing, cost rental and more new social homes than has been done for 50 years, even though your party of serial objectors continues to object across the country.

I want to ask you a question. Twelve of your Deputies - Deputy Kerrane-----

He is eating into my time.

Unfortunately, it is.

I will debate the Deputy anytime, anywhere. It is a matter for the Business Committee.

I would welcome that debate again because I debate with this man all the time. He still has nothing to say and no housing plan. All he does is oppose everything.

I will, of course.

Ask your Deputies why they keep asking me to expand the plans I brought in. Many of them are here.

Good man, Pearse; well done.

I thank Deputy Bacik. Just to say-----

I thank the Deputy for her constructive question. To repeat, I thank the commission for the work it has done. The report was in preparation for three years to take a long-term view of housing. It looked back at ten years of significant undersupply and at affordable and social housing. Many of its recommendations have already been implemented. An example is the 20% provision of social and affordable housing, which I changed. I reversed the decision of a previous Labour Party Minister to go from 20% to 10%. We have g…

The targets themselves do not build homes and the Deputy knows that. We are continuing to deliver homes at a scale we have not seen in more than 15 years. Not everybody is feeling that yet. It is a significant challenge. I meet people across this country, in my own constituency and everywhere else, who are getting the keys to their forever homes at a rate we have not seen for 15 years. We will continue to ramp that up and I am ambitious and determined that we do that. The targets will be set and revised in the autu…

We need to do more. I will answer the question about the Planning and Development Bill. It is really important legislation. It needs to pass by this summer. I am open to amendments, and we debated this on Committee Stage. I will be looking at further amendments on Report Stage.

I thank the Deputy for raising this serious issue. I first want to address the issue of drugs and antisocial behaviour. I come to that with some degree of knowledge. Up to recently, I chaired for ten years the regional drugs and alcohol taskforce in north County Dublin. I have seen at first hand the damage illegal and illicit drugs, and indeed legal drugs like alcohol, can do to our young people and not-so-young people as well. We have to ensure there is education on drugs and drug use to inform young people and ed…

Sorry?

Does the Deputy want to sit in the Chair? I am trying to answer Deputy Murphy if that is okay. It is a serious issue and a serious point. Deputy Shortall should know that as a former junior Minister at the Department of Health. I say to Deputy Murphy that it is not just a commentary. We need to do more in that space. That is why we are recruiting more gardaí. We have to ensure we have health professionals on the front line too, in particular on the education side through our schools. What I was trying to say before…