They are very poor.

They are shocking.

All Sinn Féin offered the last time was a house without the land. Actually, Deputies may feign a laugh-----

----- but I would challenge anybody-----

What has been unacceptable is that there has been a deliberate attempt to interrupt and heckle.

I did not interrupt Deputy McDonald.

With the greatest respect, it is just plain stupid to go on about the greatest evictions since the Famine. That is not being serious about our housing problems.

We have a housing crisis here but all I see from the Opposition-----

All I see from the Opposition, Sinn Féin in particular, is empty rhetoric, no solutions and the usual sloganeering. That will not build houses. I have a document here with all the objections of those parties' representatives. They objected to housing project after housing project.

I understand this is about politics and electoral politics. What I am determined to do-----

No, it is not.

Deputy Ó Broin is empty in terms of policy formulation.

You are empty on substance, Deputy Ó Broin. You have no substance when it comes to housing.

You have no substance whatsoever and the proof of the pudding was in the last election when people did not buy your pig in a poke. You got it wrong and your party knows you got it wrong.

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta as an gceist phráinneach seo a ardú. Aontaím léi go bhfuil an méid foréigean i gcoinne ban sa tír seo uafásach. I thank the Deputy for raising this extremely important issue. What we witnessed yesterday in terms of the revelations in the court case involving Paul Moody was quite shocking and horrendous and the level of abuse evident in that case made for extremely difficult hearing and reading. Equally shocking are the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's reports on the use of its national h…

These have all been significant, and then there is the implementation of the O'Malley report-----

-----on the journey of the victims.

That reform is under way and is continuing. We have been fairly open to any constructive amendments in respect of the various legislative mechanisms that have been introduced. The Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2026 will restrict the disclosure of counselling records in sexual offence trials and criminalise the exploitative practice of sex in lieu of rent. The criminal justice Bill of this year will set up a domestic violence register of judgments, which will ensure that convictions for …

On all fronts-----

-----we are going to proceed with this agenda.