Deputies, please do not encourage-----

Please. I call Deputy Joan Collins.

In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the next weekly division time.

The CDNT in my home town of New Ross, County Wexford, is like most other CDNTs in the country and is simply not fit for purpose. Currently, 258 children are assigned to the CDNT in New Ross, all of whom require some level of therapeutic input. Many of them are waiting for more than one intervention. The CDNT in New Ross has no senior social worker, no speech and language therapist, no dietician, no clinical nurse manager, no manager, and I could go on. This is now a repetitive plight that so many others in this Hou…

I thank the Social Democrats for tabling another well-intentioned motion on housing. Unfortunately, the motion, as presented, while well-intentioned, simply underpins the false narrative that has been advanced by Governments for the past ten years. It is nothing more than a deluded application of centralised policies to follow the groupthink of all the parties in this House that this will solve the problem. Continuously speaking about the effects of the housing crisis, and a continuous failure to diagnose the cause…

I call Deputy O'Donoghue, please.

He has decided it is ladies first. I am glad I am in that category.

Not at the moment. You are sailing close to the wind there, a Cheann Comhairle. On a more serious topic, this is going to sound rather unusual in that the meánscoil in Brownswood in Enniscorthy has been told it is going to get a new building on a new site. They do not want that. At a time when we have an issue with construction inflation and many of our projects being cancelled, what they do want is an extension, literally the physical amenity of a gym, that can be built by the current provider from which they leas…

I want to voice my displeasure at again having to sit here through a mockery of what has happened. Nobody won anything yesterday, least of all our reputations for solving problems. I have a headache from listening to rubbish. There is no solution from anybody here. All they want to do is bicker and blame somebody else. All of these things are in their control. I do not want to shout, so I will calm down and put the issue to the Tánaiste. I received a document from the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heri…

Is the Tánaiste going to address the-----

I said it should be a planning consideration.

It is not, and this is-----

The Government has taken measures to make matters worse.

There are 60,000 private renters on HAP.

The foundations have not been dug, never mind there. That is the problem. There are 70,000 housing units with planning permission ready to go. Does the Tánaiste understand viability? Could he pass that information on to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage because he does not know what the specific planning policy requirement is? We do not get that in what the Tánaiste has spoken about, namely, the planning and development Bill. We get it from the document I received from the Minister, which is t…

The Taoiseach has said that a number of times now.

The Tánaiste will not be-----

This Government's policies have locked three generations out of buying a house.

I am not playing to a gallery. How dare the Tánaiste say that?

The Tánaiste is not able to answer the question, is that it?