The Deputy will probably be the only one to survive. All Sinn Féin wishes to do-----

Absolutely.

I have increased my vote in every election I have run in.

I have always taken the first or second seat, despite what people may say.

The Deputy will see one of two things: the re-election of this Government or a Government led by Sinn Féin that will end the eviction ban in January anyway.

What is the point in the Opposition's motion? It is just ego.

I am 100% in agreement with the Deputy on Putin. Appeasement has failed. I understand why sometimes people promote appeasement but just as it failed in the 1930s and 1940s, it has failed here. Russia was allowed to control part of Moldova, then it was allowed to invade Georgia and control part of Georgia, then it was allowed to take Crimea. The West did not act sufficiently, nor did the wider international community. As a result of that, Putin felt he had the green light to invade eastern and southern Ukraine and t…

I thank the Deputy. I believe we have adequate resources, but I am not sure what resources we would need, depending on how severe the event is. We do not believe any event would be likely or, if it did happen, would have a major impact on Ireland. We cannot take that for granted. The Tánaiste and Minister for Defence and I have plans to have a further briefing on this over the Easter period. It is something that is in train. We have not quite gone to the extent of advising the public as to what it should do in this…

I have received a number of letters from Deputy Bacik on a number of items. I am not sure I have had a chance to respond to that one yet, but a response is coming. She will be aware that it was she in this Chamber back in October or November who called for a winter eviction ban.

She now believes that winter is not the basis for a ban and she has a new proposal. I have explained in the Dáil-----

I have explained in the Dáil why I do not think this idea of a moratorium linked to four consecutive months of a particular index falling is the right way to go. I explained that last week. I will be happy to explain it to her in writing if she so wishes. I am advised by the Whip that over the past week and this week we will have 15 hours of debate in total on this issue, housing, and the end of the winter eviction moratorium. I think 15 hours is a lot. I think it is enough, but of course Deputies and parties are f…

The situation is that the school building programme is powering ahead. I have never seen more new schools built in the country or new schools extended than I have in the last couple of years. It has gone over budget for lots of reasons. The Department of Education's school building programme has gone over budget. It needs additional money to proceed with these projects. It will be getting additional money to proceed with these projects but the exact details and the costings have to be worked out. The Minister for E…

The LDA report, which, I am sure, the Deputy has read at this stage, states that approximately 66,000 homes could be built on public land, but that only in the region of 10,000 of those could be built in the next five to ten years as a result of the constraints relating to the sites involved. We will be scaling up our ambition in the context of what the LDA can achieve. We are examining the Housing for All targets, which have already been ramped up to 40,000 by the end of the decade. Whatever targets we have - and …

Yes, I was.

I will say no more about it because it would be unkind.

It is not possible to model that accurately. People in emergency accommodation are there for all sorts of reasons. The biggest reason in the past six months was family breakdowns and non-citizen families presenting for emergency accommodation. There is no way of predicting how many people will experience family breakdown or how many will apply for emergency accommodation. That is why modelling in this regard cannot exist. It is not that it does not exist; it cannot exist. It would only be a guesstimate, and not a g…

I have not read the article, I have not heard either side of the story and I do not know the facts, so I do not want to comment on them in any detail. I will certainly let the Minister for Finance and the Chairman of the transport committee know that the Deputy raised it here and perhaps they can take it further.

I am aware of the case. He has some links to my constituency and we have raised it with the UAE authorities. I had thought we had come to a resolution on it some months ago but perhaps that is not the case. I will follow up on it again.

I might follow up on this with the Deputy later. I have already seen around the country a number of buildings brought back into use in residential form, a number of pubs that have been turned into residential accommodation and office blocks in this city that have been turned into residential accommodation.

That I am not sure of, but I will follow up with the Deputy. It certainly sounds like a good idea to me. I thought there were already schemes to allow for that, but maybe not.