That is much more than the €2.8 billion that Sinn Féin put forward in its cobbled together plan.

The Deputy believes he can deliver more HAP homes with less money; simply, he cannot. All of us in this House, whether in government or in opposition and whether some like it or not, have a responsibility to help resolve this, not to capitalise on it-----

-----not to manipulate it, not to sow division----

-----not to delay or use any tactic to avoid supporting legislation, like they did just before Christmas-----

-----that would fast-track delivery of social homes. That is what all of us in the Government want and that is what the Government is doing.

That is the number closed.

I would not have missed the Deputy.

I had to step out for a minute.

That is a net decrease.

Which the Deputy is against.

The Deputy is against everything.

Bring forward proposals.

First, we used the pause and the time given through the eviction moratorium to ramp up additional supply. I will give the Deputy some specific figures and while they are approximations, they are close to the verified figures which we will have very soon. In quarter four of last year we delivered about 5,000 new social housing builds. We brought back about 1,500 voids in that period. We have acquired just short of approximately 600 homes, many of them with tenants in situ . We have leased a further 600 homes, partic…

Just to remind the Deputy, his parliamentary question does not relate to this at all. The question he tabled makes no reference to what he has raised this morning but I am quite happy to answer because we made the right decision. It was a difficult decision but one that is in the best public interest in the medium term. That is what one has to do in government. One cannot just make populist decisions. One must make decisions that are right, even if they are difficult. I have outlined very clearly the additional cap…

I have answered, very clearly, Deputy Ó Broin's question, albeit not the question he tabled, and am happy to answer it. We have a responsibility to make sure that we work towards a functioning private rental sector. The Deputy knows why the Government took this difficult-----

Do not interrupt-----

We have provided-----

Can I be allowed to answer the question?

What I am saying to Deputy Ó Broin----

The Deputy may not want to listen to the answer but I have given him the answer, very clearly. We have ramped up significantly additional accommodation through social housing new builds of more than 5,000 in the last quarter of last year and over 1,800 in the first two months of this year. More than 600 homes have been purchased since July and-----