I think I have dealt with the issues raised by Deputy Boyd Barrett. To respond to Deputy Barry, I accept, that war crimes are being committed as we speak. All those within Moscow protesting against the Russian aggression should be freed. The persecution that is continuing against anyone who protests in Russia against Government policy is absolutely scandalous. I support the Deputy entirely in calling that out and calling for those prisoners to be released. PESCO is an important facility that we have joined up to. C…

Ireland needs to work with other European countries in terms of collectively responding to cybersecurity attacks that have the capacity to paralyse nations. Last evening, I read some reports coming back to us from our missions in Germany. There is significant alarm and anxiety - this was in advance of the war - about potential cyberattacks on German infrastructure. We had it last year in the context of our health service. The cyberattack here really caused enormous damage to our health service.

In response to Deputy McDonald, there is an increased Garda presence in the area of the north-east inner city, strong support for the pilot north inner city local community safety partnership, an educational bursary for local gardaí, a community agency to enhance skills and, as she will be aware, the completion of the refurbishment of Fitzgibbon Garda Station. There is much more in the context of education, training and employment. On Deputy Tóibín's issue, I made the point that we are not seeking permission from t…

Never has the European Union been more united and ensured a more speedier response-----

-----with great determination to apply unprecedented levels of sanctions in the areas of finance and banking that no one comprehended a week ago. We do not need permission to do anything, other than what we said to the House. In the interests of Irish citizens in Russia or Ukraine, we believe keeping channels open matters in terms of helping those who could be in jeopardy. It also helps in terms of information, knowledge and communicating our position on key events. It is an easy thing to do in one sense, but we ne…

That is why we have to proceed carefully in relation to that matter. In response to Deputy Barry, obviously, we neither support nor have any evidence of the application of any racist approach to facilitating migration into Poland.

What we have evidence of is 100,000 people so far have been facilitated by the Polish authorities in coming into Poland. That is important.

In terms of Deputy Devlin's point of view, I support Ukraine's application to be a member of the European Union. There is a process there but, I believe, it should be a candidate country. I am consistently of the view that the European perspective represents perhaps the most strategic approach that the European Union can take, not only in the eastern neighbourhood but in the Western Balkans as well. It has been too slow, in terms of application processes, for many countries and then Europe complains when Russia and…

I thank the Deputy for raising the issue of housing, because I have repeatedly said that, in my view, housing is the single most urgent and important social issue facing our country at this point in time. Access to housing is fundamental to our security, stability, health and progress as a society. If we do not recognise the scale of the challenge and respond in kind, then this has the potential to be profoundly destabilising for society and to deprive many younger generations of the capacity to access housing and …

It goes back beyond that, and the Deputy's party keeps saying no. It always has an excuse and a reason to say this project cannot go ahead and so on.

The crisis is so big that we need to get on with it in terms of allowing projects and rezonings to happen. The scale of the house building that must occur means the rezoning of brownfield sites. Let us be clear about that. It is not going to be possible to get 20,000 or 30,000 units per year if we do not do that. We need cities to grow in a compact way where services already exist. All we have, though, is objection after objection.

It will mean the disposal of property. Councils will have to dispose of lands-----

-----to enable housing to happen. Old industrial sites in cities will have to be rezoned for housing. If councils have land, they should dispose of it to ensure that housing happens-----

To get housing built, and perhaps in partnership, as we are doing in some places across the country.

The context here is very clear. We need to build houses at a far greater scale than we have been in recent years and we must do it quickly.

No one party can say, "It is our way or the highway, or that you do it in accordance with our ideological framework or not at all." That has been the nature of the Deputy's party's position for a considerable time. The Housing for All strategy is ambitious and has a strong delivery mechanism to get houses built. We need to get to 33,000 houses per year, with a mix of social, private, affordable and cost rental, and we are going to do it.

The Deputy used the word "corrupt".

Sinn Féin is the last party to talk to anybody about corruption.

Deputy McDonald's party corrupted public life in this republic for well-----

-----on 40 years to a far greater degree than any other party in this country.