It would be much worse.

People would leave the rental market immediately because the Deputy's party is all about control, to the extent that there would be nobody left in the rental market by the time it was finished. They just will not be there. It is evident in terms of the policies. About 4,000 affordable homes were delivered in 2020. That is double. A total of 12,000 social houses were delivered last year. We are being realistic and honest with people. I am not going to create some sort of fairytale and say there is a wonderful world …

The Deputy's proposals will not sort that out. That is my point.

They would make it much worse. The Deputy should be more honest about how he articulates his model but he never does that because it does not suit him politically to do so.

Exactly. That is where the Deputy wants to be. He is not really interested in going through the bricks and mortar of getting houses built. That is not his interest. It is electoral-----

That is the old line.

We are interested in getting houses built unlike the Deputy. We need more honesty from him. Tell the people what he really believes in.

That would stop housing development after housing development in Dublin.

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It is very fundamental reform of European migration law and practice. There are legally binding timeframes for making decisions on international protection applications and appeals and a greater focus on efficient returns for unsuccessful applicants and accelerated processing, including for those from safe countries, those with no documents or false documents and those who have crossed borders illegally. It is, therefore, a toughening up, and a much stricter regime will come into place. It will take time because in…

Legislation has to come back here anyway.

It has now transpired in the Brooklodge case that no application was made to the Department by the school in respect of a new special class. The NCSE has sanctioned an ASD class but my understanding is that an application was never made or had not been made up to the weekend, although an application is going in urgently now. I do not think it is fair to the Minister to say that the Minister has refused that. I spoke to the Minister about this when it emerged and Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan and the Minister of State, …

No application was made. We need to all agree on the facts of any given case. We will do everything we can to help. Broadly speaking, provision has been made for about 2,700 new special education places.

I will follow up on that.

I have been a long-standing advocate for and supporter of minor injuries units. I do not know the background as to why we do not have a minor injuries unit in Galway. Is it to do with the configuration of Merlin Park and other hospital projects getting ahead of it?

It is not that we will not give one. Have the plans come forward? I will certainly talk to the Minister for Health because they work and they take pressure off the emergency departments.

I appreciate the Deputy raising the issue and I will talk to the Minister. I think the Deputy said that it was because it was an area of architectural conservation that it could not go ahead.

That illustrates the importance at times of having areas of conservation to stop that kind of behaviour which would undermine the architectural integrity and heritage of a given town or village. I will certainly speak to the Minister in that respect.