Every one of you said it and we are not.

We are not. What we are doing is extending it. It is becoming a national framework now in terms of rent pressure zones.

The evidence has pointed to those areas outside rent pressure zones being under pressure because of that very fact so we are correcting that in terms of making it a national protective framework. Existing tenants' rents are capped at 2%.

The Deputy knows that but she says the opposite here. She just tells untruths with abandon-----

With abandon---

Existing tenants' rents will be capped at 2%.

That is the reality of it and for those with four tenancies and above, there is an effective end to no-fault eviction.

That is the bottom line and yet Deputy McDonald comes in, all sound and fury. To a certain extent, there is an incredible incoherence in terms of Sinn Féin policy on housing. Deputy Ó Broin, as the Sinn Féin housing spokesperson, will meet all of the property interests. I have a list again of who he has met lately. On 30 April, Property Industry Ireland and IBEC. He meets them. Why?

For what purpose?

For what purpose? To introduce incentives for investors to capitalise apartment construction. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald comes in today and says the Government is only interested in institutional investors.

Her spokesperson has been meeting them on an ongoing basis. Such hypocrisy.

Such hypocrisy will not cut it with the people. The bottom line is this. This is a balanced set of proposals.

The Housing Agency report as published had four options. The Government has gone with the option of adapting the existing RPZs because they would expire by the end of the year if nothing was done. This is a strong measure in terms of protection but also in terms of new builds. We need to incentivise future investment in new apartment buildings and housing. I put it to the Deputy that the State is the lead investor at the moment, with €7 billion plus. The Department of Finance is saying that we need about €20 billio…

Is anybody seriously suggesting that the State will pony up the €20 billion? Sinn Féin says it will triple social housing, triple this and that without telling us how we are going to get the money. This is very fundamental. We need public sector investment-----

We also need private sector investment and we need to protect tenants. The Minister, Deputy Browne, has done that today with his package. It is extremely disappointing to Sinn Féin because it is not what the party thought it would be.

Sinn Féin never anticipated that we would end no-fault evictions by landlords with four tenancies. It never anticipated that we would make it a national protection framework because last March the party declared to all and sundry that the Government was getting rid of it completely.

That is the language they used. It is the language of "exaggerate and exaggerate, tell untruth after untruth and you know what, people might believe us".

"People might believe us";-----

-----that is what Sinn Féin is about. What I am about is solutions.

I am about solutions.