The hypocrisy of you. Through the Chair, what hypocrisy.

This initiative is already in place in Northern Ireland----

-----and the Executive in Northern Ireland financed it and who is the Finance Minister? Sinn Féin holds the Finance Ministry.

You are doing this for naked political reasons.

And by the way, Deputy, we all meet people----

I do not like the way you are trying to insinuate certain characteristics attributed to the Minister, which is unworthy of the Deputy.

I am hiding nothing. I am very clear.

During my Ard-Fheis speech during the year, I described social media as the greatest public health----

Please allow me to speak. Have the manners. I allowed you to speak.

I have been interrupted repeatedly now by the Deputy.

At our Ard-Fheis last year I described social media, the use of smartphones and so on as the public health threat of our generation. I have been consistent on this. I believe in taking the smartphone out of the school day. I believe in allowing children the opportunity to concentrate and to enjoy.

In the material that was released, teachers spoke about the use of these pouches-----

-----as freeing up the time for children to do what children normally and naturally did before the invasion of social media.

I want to finish by saying that long after this general election is over, I will make this prediction: In years to come, people will look back on this initiative and say it was a good initiative that did some good for the children of that generation. That is what will happen, by the way. This will be implemented.

It will be impactful long after the election.

I thank the Deputy for raising what is the most significant social issue of our generation. This Government, notwithstanding Covid-19, has made very significant progress and initiated a range of actions and initiatives on social and affordable homes of different types and supports for first-time buyers. A total of 125,000 new homes have been built since 2020, notwithstanding the lockdowns. That is way in excess of anything that had happened in the previous years. More homes have been completed in the past four and …

The Deputy has painted a picture that, I would argue, does not represent the very significant progress that has been made on house building in the past four years. Supply is the key to the cost question-----

I did not interrupt anybody. I would also make the point that the Social Democrats voted against the Affordable Housing Act. The Deputy might understand why we sometimes feel there is a terrible disconnect between what social democratic parties and others articulate about housing in this House when, in practice, outside of the House they do different things. In here, they opposed the Affordable Housing Act and social democratic councillors-----

-----have voted against housing developments such as Ballymastone in north County Dublin-----

-----where 1,200 social, affordable, cost-rental, affordable purchase and private homes are now, thankfully, under construction.