I move: That Dáil Éireann approves, pursuant to section 2 of the Defence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1960, as applied by section 2 of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006, the deployment of a Naval Service Vessel and associated support staff and elements for service as part of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy naval operation, Operation lrini, and in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011) and subsequent UN Resolutions on the arms embargo on Libya, noting that the planned deployment i…

I have to leave for the Upper House for statements on the report of the independent review group. This debate started 15 or 20 minutes later than-----

I am not answering questions. I am just making the point that I have to leave.

Please do not. The Minister of State, Deputy Burke, will respond. I have made my commitment.

I made my original statement. I am just alerting the Chair-----

The Deputy knows the rules of the House as well as anyone.

I was just explaining. If I left without explaining, people might say I was being disrespectful.

I dtús báire, ní aontaím leis an Teachta. Is soiléir nach bhfuil aon phlean cuimsitheach ag an Teachta féin ó thaobh na géarchéime tithíochta atá againn sa tír seo. Níl sé soiléir in aon chor. Má éisteann muid leis an méid atá ráite ag an Teachta agus a chomhghleacaithe - na polasaithe agus na tuairimí atá luaite acu - ní bheidh amhras orainn ach go mbeadh an scéal i bhfad níos measa dá gcuirfí roinnt de na polasaithe sin i bhfeidhm. The Deputy's inability to acknowledge any progress in relation to housing policy u…

The Deputy wanted to lift the eviction ban on Christmas week. That was his proposal. There was nothing of substance in what he was saying. It is all empty sloganeering and sound bites designed to win votes. That is all he is interested in. He is not interested in solutions. He described the crisis. How in the name of God can his party object to 11,000 houses?

How can it do that?

How can it do it with a straight face?

The reason it objects, on a serial basis, up and down the length and breadth of the country, is that it wants to win votes at local level.

That is what Sinn Féin is at. Whenever it is that a group will support something, Sinn Féin is there-----

-----but it is not going to do anything, it seems to me, concrete, of substance or constructive to solve the problem.

I have not heard a single idea-----

-----from Deputy Doherty this afternoon regarding any additional resolution. All I have heard from him is to abolish the help-to-buy, to abolish the first home scheme, a scheme that is helping first-time buyers.

What does Deputy Doherty have against first-time buyers? His position on the rental market and the eviction ban-----

We have a defence-----

Sinn Féin would make it far worse. That is the point. It would create a further crisis.

All your policies in respect of the demand side of the rental market would reduce rental supply and the availability of housing.