We are listening intently.

That is true.

I thank the Minister of State for his explanation. On the Bill itself, this legislation is of enormous importance. Repeatedly during our discussions both as part of pre-legislative scrutiny and on Second Stage, it was described as a once-in-a-generation Bill. I echo Deputy McAuliffe's description of the pre-legislative scrutiny. It was probably the most detailed done in this Oireachtas and a very significant amount of time was taken by members and witnesses. It was also one of the most collegiate and cross-party pr…

I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Peter Burke, for taking this debate. I also thank the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, who contacted me earlier today as a courtesy to let me know he was unable to be present. However, as the Bill relates to a planning matter, it falls within the Minister of State's portfolio, so the right man is here for the day. As the Minister of State knows, in 2017, the Oireachta…

Renters need a break. We have had five years now of month-on-month falling supply. It is not just landlords leaving the market as they are taking rental properties with them as they sell them. Rents have never been higher and they are now higher than they were at the very peak of the Celtic tiger and continuing to rise. We have had nine straight months of a rising rate of homelessness of adults and children. Half of the notices to quit are from landlords selling and leaving the market. It gives me no pleasure to sa…

It is fitting, on National Biodiversity Week, an initiative run by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, that we are having these important statements on the new strategic action plan. Like other speakers, I want to start by not just commending the Minister of State for the action plan itself, but by making a very clear statement that if it was not for the Minister of State's personal efforts since taking up the role, I do not believe that we would have the plan that is in front of us or that we would be h…

I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and his colleagues in the Social Democrats for tabling this important motion, which Sinn Féin enthusiastically supports. In my six short years in the Dáil, Croí Cónaithe cities is the craziest housing scheme any Minister with responsibility for housing has brought before us. It is nothing short of a pro-developer subsidy. There is no price discount on unaffordable market rates. There is no affordability dividend for anyone. To date, the Minister and the Department have been silent on…

We absorbed the Deputy's time.

That is because they do not have inferior design standards for apartment building there.

The Taoiseach is provoking me.

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend section 38 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) to require estate agents and online platforms to only advertise properties that are compliant with the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019. As Deputies know, the crisis in the private rental sector continues to spiral out of control. Month on month, the number of properties available to rent shrinks as large numbers of accidental an…

I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

We know the truth.

Look at the elections.

I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — house prices continue to spiral out of control; — a growing section of people are locked out of home ownership; — the latest Central Statistics Office Residential Property Price Index shows house prices increased by 15 per cent State-wide in the last year; — the largest increases were in the border region at 27 per cent; — the median price of a home across the State was €282,000; — in Malahide the median price was €497,000; — the highest median price was in Dún Laoghaire-Rat…

Not true, just not true.

Two years out of date.

Two years out of date.

The Minister asked me a question.

There are no targets.