These are record numbers of social housing delivery.

Deputy McDonald says her party can go to 30,000 overnight. She has not outlined how she would get to 30,000 overnight.

The measures and reforms proposed last week will cap rent for all existing tenants to 2%. Deputy McDonald knows that.

Rent increases for any new tenancies, post-2026, will be linked to the CPI.

I did not say that.

It was last week that I said that.

I will first say to the Deputy that since the Government came in a number of months ago in January, we have approved an extra €700 million in respect of projects and programmes for social and affordable housing. We passed the national planning framework, which will enable local authorities to zone far more land for house construction. We brought forward proposals on legislation to extend and renew planning permissions in order to give continuity and ensure that those planning permissions can be realised. We brought…

Very significantly providing protections for renters which Deputy Bacik is clearly ignoring in her commentary. While at the same time, in terms of new investment and new units, which we do need, there has to be a clear policy certainty and stability in the market so that people can invest. After 2026, linking new units to the consumer price index, CPI, and a right to reset after six years is the crucial piece that will allow inward investment in to get supply up. If we do not get supply up, then the rate at which p…

She will not support anything that in any way she perceives to be injurious to her electoral base or might cost her a few votes. That is the prism through which she is looking at our housing crisis. I recall that she is the person that said she will build 100,000 per year-----

-----through some new-fangled national State building agency, the details of which are few and far between. The Deputy has not produced solutions. We have built more than 30,000 per annum over the past number of years.

In the first quarter of this year, housing completions were close to 6,000. The actual number was 5,938. That is the highest since the record in 2011, bar the spike after Covid-19. There is a lot of delivery happening. The land market activity on residential zoned areas is up. There is a great deal of activity there. We have to keep going and get the job done.

I have no difficulty in taking responsibility. We are taking decisions.

The Deputy is criticising decisions. She said, "We are in opposition". The Labour Party could have been in government-----

-----but it did not have the courage.

You and many in your party did not have the courage. Why? It was because-----

Look, it hurts. I have the floor.

I accept what I just said hurts the party. I note Deputy Kelly is not here. To be fair to him, he wanted to go into government, but the others did not-----

-----and the reason they did not want to go into government was that they are afraid of the people alongside them.

You were afraid to jump in case they would not jump and vice versa .

I have no difficulty in taking responsibility, but maybe it is time Deputy Bacik took some responsibility and fleshed out her details.