I know we cannot do that. Apologies. But would the Deputy support the redevelopment of O'Connell Street as proposed by Hammerson?

Well then we go another ten years for something else to come along. That is the problem.

We need to be honest with ourselves. We keep saying this must happen and that must happen but when someone comes forward with a proposal and it goes on for ten years trying to get agreement from everybody and we get an outcome and then we start opposing-----

No, sorry. This has been long considered in great detail by everybody. Not me; I am not involved. I do get impatient at our complaining about everything for decades and not reaching a compromise to get something done to transform streetscapes and bring about an improvement. Improvements have been made in other parts of the country to good effect. We have transformed towns and cities across the country and this has had a huge impact in tackling dereliction and behaviour that follows it.

I propose to take Questions Nos. 3 to 8, inclusive, together. Through the Government's shared island initiative, we are engaging with all communities and traditions to build consensus around a shared future and delivering tangible benefits for the whole island. This is underpinned by the Good Friday Agreement. This work is proceeding on a whole-of-government basis and we are working with the Northern Ireland Executive, UK Government and cross-Border local-authority, education-institution and civil-society partnersh…

On the shared island dialogue, in particular the All-Island Women's Forum civic initiative, Deputy Gould made a point about the potential of research and shared data on domestic and gender-based violence in particular. We will pursue that. We have the capacity to do it working with the various groups North and South and the agencies that are in a position to collect the data and do the research. I will follow up on that. The recommendations put forward by the forum include the development of an all-island approach …

I propose to take Questions Nos. 9 to 14, inclusive, together. The Government co-ordination committee will meet again ahead of the next Government meeting, which is next week. The committee reviews the agenda of Government meetings, discusses political priorities, reviews implementation of a specified element of the programme for Government, and reviews the activity of Cabinet committees. I am a member of the committee, with the Tánaiste and the leader of the Green Party. The Secretary General to the Government, my…

I thank the Deputies for raising a range of issues. Deputy Gould raised the housing issue. I would disagree with him in terms of his assessment and his presentation of the issues. The factual position is Fianna Fáil has been in government for two and a half years, not six years.

We were not in government-----

Fianna Fáil has not been in government for six years, as the Deputy said. We have been in government for two and a half years and, since then, we have made significant efforts on the housing issue. It is the biggest social issue facing us. We have a lot more to do but, this year, we have the highest number of housing completions since 2008. We have the highest number of commencements on record, the highest number of planning permissions since 2007, the highest number of first-time buyers, at 16,000, since 2007 and …

They are proposing cost rental and developing affordable as well as social housing projects, and they are also doing a lot of good work in respect of the Ukrainian situation by creating good projects to house Ukrainians and to co-ordinate work around those fleeing the war in Ukraine. Deputy Bacik raised that issue specifically. I am hoping that meeting can be organised whereby an official could brief party leaders either tomorrow or Friday, whichever can be arranged subject to their own hectic schedules. In the eig…

-----and we were acting on that. In terms of the Ukrainian situation, decisions have been taken. Again, we appreciate the constructive role Deputy Bacik has played in terms of giving any potential properties that we can act upon in terms of the call for pledges but also the reconfiguration of existing buildings and development of modular accommodation or as I prefer to call it, rapid-build high-quality housing. Again, that ran into objections and issues. We have to expedite the mechanisms by which we get these proj…

I know but, again, I am open to having it examined. I would just be careful about it. On another day, the Deputy would be very strong in giving out about a lack of safety regulation in other areas of life. He attacks us on housing and on everything else. It could be argued that what he is proposing here could have safety implications. I will get it checked. I will talk to the Minister and have the issue examined. Deputy Murphy raised the Ukrainian situation. He said we fundamentally need to break from the reliance …

You name it, the State is getting involved in building and trying to get houses for young people. The State is the provider. We are not relying on the market because the market is not performing to the degree one would like.

I am sorry. Deputy O'Callaghan raised the issue of Tathony House. The Tyrrelstown amendment was meant to deal with this issue in terms of block evictions in apartment blocks. I will have to do a further examination but I understand the owner here is claiming there is a depreciation in value. I might be wrong. I will not say anything further than that. We need to examine the basis upon which this is happening and see what we can do to stop it.

I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. Her commentary and some of the debate on this issue in recent days has become somewhat detached from the reality we find ourselves confronted with. We need to be very clear about what this is all about, what has happened, where we are and where we go from here. The first thing that has to be done is to acknowledge and pay tribute to the extraordinary Irish national effort in response to Putin's illegal and immoral invasion of his neighbour, Ukraine. We have all watched in h…

The Deputy has just acknowledged that up to 54,000 Ukrainians have been accommodated in this country, and 43,000 of them have been accommodated by the State. That is not cobbling together a plan.

That is a reality. That has happened. We never before had to deal with such numbers coming into the country. We have to deal with it because of a war. It is a vicious war and we have said, along with our European Union colleagues, that we will do everything we can to accommodate Ukrainians, and we have. That must be acknowledged. The Deputy described all of that as a disaster. She commented that we could not do our own as well. I know what that is targeted at. I know why that phrase was used.

The Deputy used that phrase at the beginning of her remarks and I know why she used it and who it was targeted at.

She is playing both sides in this debate, and I regret that she is.