I am sure we will use them up; do not worry. I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and his colleagues in the Social Democrats, not only for tabling this Private Members' motion, which we are more than happy to support, but also for giving us the opportunity to have this important debate. Moments ago, the Minister told us that he and his colleagues would move heaven and earth to tackle this crisis. Well, there are actually two things that he will not do. He will not keep the promises about affordable housing that he made …

Members of the Not Our Fault - 100% Redress campaign are yet again outside this building calling on the Government to take action on the issue of defects. As the Taoiseach will know, it was more than two years ago that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, announced the establishment of the working group on Celtic tiger-era building defects. It has been a year since that group's report was published and six months since the Minister told these homeowners, many with very serious fire safety and structural defects, that fund…

No, the Government does not. They are not collected.

On a point of order, the procedure for dealing with such motions is on foot of a motion from the Dáil. Most regulations are discussed at committee and only after that discussion at committee is a motion brought forward to the House to deal with the regulations either with or without debate. In this instance that process has not been properly followed. We only discussed the regulations at our committee yesterday with the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell. There was significant concern among Opposition and Governme…

We understood that all three were being taken together and it is the-----

The Minister of State's response misses the point, which is there should not be a motion on the Order Paper today that was tabled prior to the committee meeting. The procedure is that the committee discusses regulations and on foot of that discussion a motion is then sent from the committee to the Dáil, which originally sent the committee the regulations, with regard to the motion being taken with or without debate. The Minister of State is absolutely correct that I proposed that we have engagement in September on …

We could have 55 minutes tomorrow. Let us have a proper discussion and let us proceed in an appropriate manner.

I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Fine Gael have now been in Government for 12 years, propped up by Fianna Fáil for the past seven years, and Darragh O'Brien TD has been the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for three years; and — during this time the housing crisis has deepened, and is the biggest threat to Ireland's economic and societal well-being; further notes with extreme concern that: — adult homelessness has increased by 44 per cent and child homelessness has increased by 39 per cen…

His press office did provide his statement in advance and he was complaining that I was repeating myself. I will continue to repeat myself, as will my colleagues, with the right policies until the Minister listens. What are we proposing today? It is what we have proposed before, which is an emergency three-year ban on rent increases for all existing renters, new tenancies and new properties in the market, a real refundable tax credit that works and puts a full month's rent back in every renter's pocket, a real emer…

It is a pity the Minister is not spending it.

People cannot live in planning permissions.

We need 50,000. It is too little.

Just give us the figures for this year. What has the Government done this year?

What has the Government delivered this year?

How many have been delivered so far this year? It is a simple question.

The Minister today launched a report on quarter 2 and he could not answer the question.

No answer to the question. Remarkable.

The Minister does not even know how many social houses were delivered this year.

It is remarkable.

Apologies, a Chathaoirleach Gníomhach.