To answer Deputy Ó Broin's question, duplexes within multi-unit developments are included. The onus is on the purchaser when purchasing a property to ensure the property is surveyed properly. With regard to properties that are sold on, survey work should obviously be done before someone purchases a home. This happened in the pyrite and infill schemes where people genuinely did not know. People may find themselves in the position Deputy O'Callaghan highlighted due to poor professional advice or for other reasons. Th…

It was last night.

With regard to the defective concrete block, DCB, scheme, I specifically structured the legislation to ensure we can add additional counties. Homeowners need to know that where they have defective concrete blocks and they meet the criteria set out in the primary legislation, the State is there to help them because of a market failure. To answer Deputy Harkin, I await the final submission. I expect to add Sligo, as I said publicly a couple of weeks ago. Where a submission is made to formally add a county to a scheme…

I will conclude on this really quickly because it is important. The pyrite and infill scheme did set aside the "should have known" clause, if someone can actually prove they genuinely did not and made every effort to. I expect that to be the same with the apartment defects scheme.

I move amendment No. 1: To delete all the words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: — supporting individuals and families facing homelessness is a key Government priority; increasing housing supply across all tenures is critical to addressing homelessness; significant progress is being made in increasing overall supply; — a record 22,443 homes have been completed in the first nine months of 2023, an 8.9 per cent increase on the same period in 2022 and the highest number of completions re…

It has been confirmed to the main Opposition spokesperson as well, that the Government will review the-----

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What Deputy Doherty never-----

Excuse me. What Deputy Doherty will never do here this evening, because it does not suit the Sinn Féin narrative, is mention the changes that have been made in planning-----

Changes that have actually had that effect of ensuring there is no more bulk purchasing. There is a legacy issue with a very small percentage-----

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As was confirmed by me last week when we debated this matter, and as stated by the Taoiseach, the 10% stamp duty rate is being reviewed. Let us not take this out of context or catastrophise this issue. I am well aware of those 45 homes in Belcamp and am aware of other instances but what we are looking at across the board is progress. Again, none of the Deputies in the main Opposition parties will even recognise the progress that is being made in housing delivery, in both social and affordable homes and in cost-rent…

Deputy Ó Broin can huff and puff over there but a year ago, in his interview with Mr. Hugh O'Connell in the Irish Independent , he stated very clearly that he was working hard on a Sinn Féin alternative housing plan, he would have it done soon and would publish it but we are still waiting for that a year later. In the absence of that plan, all we see, week on week, is Sinn Féin coming forward with half-page or one-and-a-half-page motions that try to jump on one bandwagon or another.

What we are actually doing is focusing on delivering progress for our people.

The number one priority within that-----

We are seeing first-time buyers up.

We are seeing social housing waiting lists down.

It might disappoint Deputy Ó Broin that this Thursday we will again see a Government that has exceeded its housing targets.