It corrupted the moral code of our country and society by the murder and mayhem that it perpetrated, and that it still endorses.

It still supports the narrative of murder, mayhem and so forth.

The party also supports the undermining of women-----

-----who were raped by IRA volunteers-----

The Deputy's party covered it up.

Do not come into this House-----

-----and lead with your chin, telling this party that we were corrupt. We had faults and flaws, about which there is no doubt, but we faced up to them. We never, ever attempt, as Sinn Féin consistently does, to try to rewrite the narrative and bury the truths.

The level of corruption Deputy McDonald's party engaged in-----

To come to the housing issue, what Sinn Féin is good at is rewriting narratives and spinning. In terms of Dublin City Council-----

-----we have allowed city councils to engage with partners to get housing developed, to get mixed tenure, to get private, affordable and social housing built.

We are doing that.

In addition to that, we have provided €4 billion. The Deputy does not like the truth-----

We are going to provide €4 billion year by year.

Deputy McDonald needs to start answering some questions now.

How is she going to double housing output? She keeps using slogans that she articulates from time to time but there is no meat behind it.

There is no flesh on the bone. There is no reality behind what she is saying. The Deputy can wave all she likes but it does not hide the truth.

I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. In the first instance, along with the Deputy and in the clearest possible terms, I want to condemn Russia's aggression towards its neighbour. It is unilaterally, without any justification whatsoever, threatening and undermining the integrity of an independent democratic state, and this is unacceptable. I agree with the Deputy and I have no difficulty in agreeing a joint motion in the House because Russia's behaviour deserves the unequivocal condemnation of e…

I thank the Deputy for what he said. We will work with the Whips through the Business Committee or otherwise to consider the motion. We support the idea of a cross-party motion condemning Russia's actions. Yesterday, I met with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who made a significant announcement in regard to Nord Stream. The approach all along by the European Union has been to work in concert and that unity is our strength. It is a very dark moment for European history and the Continent. It is very serious. The …

We have introduced rent restrictions in this country. I am just back from Berlin. The rent freeze there did not work at all; it had a completely dysfunctional impact on the market. We have to learn lessons. I read the daft.ie report. The fundamental point is that we need to build more houses. Building 20,000 houses a year is not enough. It is a very significant factor in where rents are. We have really to concentrate on getting houses built as fast as we possibly can. That means social and affordable houses and pri…

The Deputy is wrong. The last number of housing projects that I opened were all social housing projects, completed. In the first quarter of last year we had a lockdown. The Deputy knows that. There was a full lockdown of construction.