Hear, hear.

There have been a lot of promises and reports to do something about homeless people and building houses. However, what reason or what gripe has the Government with people in rural Ireland wanting to build their own homes? In this new 2040 plan, that never mentioned Kerry by the way, the Government is saying that houses can only be built in the open countryside if they do not detract from the capacity of our larger towns and cities to deliver homes more sustainably. That is saying they will not grant or allow planning permission in rural areas. What has the Government against people in rural areas building their own homes? Government Deputies are in here propagating that they are going to do this and do that. There is one report after another to deal with homelessness and to build houses. Why are they trying to stop people who want to build their own homes? What blackguarding is this and why is the Government against people in rural Ireland?

The Minister has got the question. Planning in rural Ireland.

We have absolutely nothing against it and that is why the-----

It says it here on this page.

That is why the national planning framework specifically recognises not just the economic need for a house but also the social need. It is an issue that my party colleagues pursued very extensively, as did the Minister, Deputy Ring, as this issue was going through Cabinet. I can let the Deputy know that the population is growing in rural Ireland under this Government-----

It is doing so in spite of the Government

In spite of it.

The Deputy cannot have his own facts. He can have his own opinion but not his own fact.

Alternative facts.

The population is growing and under this Government we are going to invest more in rural Ireland, including Kerry.

So are the Government Deputies going to come down on their buses?

We can all go to Sligo.

Deputy Danny Healy-Rae knows all about the buses.