If the Minister stays until the end, I will answer all of them.

Published in 2021, as the Minister knows.

Where was the Minister's housing plan while in opposition? It was nowhere to be seen.

Ours has been published-----

-----well in advance of the election, unlike the Minister's.

It is a fact.

I have been very well behaved.

I appreciate this is one of the first Private Members' debates for the Minister of State in his new role but I would have been embarrassed to have to read out the speech that he read given the record of his party in government. Let us just look at the facts. Since his party has been in government, house prices have doubled, rents have doubled and the most shocking figure is that child homelessness has increased by 500% while Fine Gael has led the Government since 2011. Tonight we will have more children sleeping in…

Hear hear.

For the fourth year since the Minister has taken office, he has missed all his affordable housing targets - every single one - and missed them very significantly. Of course, these targets were not sufficient in the first place. Will he explain to the House and, more importantly, to those people desperate to rent or buy homes affordably why he has missed those targets and what he will do this year to ensure not only that the targets he has set will be met but that they will be increased?

To say the Minister's response is Orwellian would be an understatement. Let us look at the facts. As regards his affordable purchase scheme, the only Government scheme that delivers anything close to genuinely affordable homes, he missed his target last year by 63%. As regards the cost-rental scheme, he missed his target by 59%. As regards the first home scheme, which he has lauded, he missed the target by 44%. He promised 2,000 home purchases with that highly controversial, high-risk scheme last year; there were o…

Of course, the Minister is deliberately misrepresenting not only his failure to meet his own targets but also our party's policy. If people want to know Sinn Féin's policy, they can read it on the website. This is questions to the Minister. He can laugh, but the only affordable housing in my local authority last year was homes to purchase for €400,000-plus. As regards affordable rental in my constituency, it is €1,400 for a one-bed and €1,800 for a three-bed. The Minister might think this is funny, but for hardwork…

It is falling under your watch.

Home ownership is falling under your watch.

How many have been delivered, Minister? Delivery.

People cannot live on an approval.

Why are you missing your targets? That is the question.

You are missing your targets. That is what they can see, Minister.

Year on year, you are breaking your promises and missing your targets, Minister.

If that is the best you can do, it really is quite shocking.