As I informed the Business Committee a few days ago, grassroots housing activists are planning a housing demonstration on 5 December and have requested that Deputies, rather than attending the demonstration, have a debate in the House on solutions to the housing crisis. I hope that debate will be arranged. There are many reasons that people wish to protest, including the welfare of children, economic evictions and the lack of public housing. In light of the O'Devaney Gardens controversy and the determination of the Government and some of the Opposition parties to dispose of public land to private developers for the purposes of providing social and affordable housing, will the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government tell us how much the social housing element of those developments will cost us when we buy them back from the private developers to whom the land was given?

The Deputy's time is up.

The Department's guidelines for the acquisition of dwellings suggest shocking upper limit figures of €400,000, €500,000 and €700,000 for social housing units.

Will the Deputy allow the Minister to answer?

Are those the prices the public will pay for housing from private developers on land that was given to those developers by the State?

I thank the Deputy for his question. The O'Devaney Gardens site is an incredibly important one for the people of Dublin. Two years ago, a Sinn Féin-led majority in the local authority agreed a proposal for the site, and that proposal has been out to tender since then. We finally have a contractor but, at the 11th hour, councillors changed their mind and put this huge project at risk. At the very final hour, the Dublin agreement group, led by Fianna Fáil, put out a statement about an agreement that did not exist in an effort to get the deal through.

I am opposed to both of those developments.

Fortunately, the original proposal has gone through and the site will be developed.

How much will people pay for social housing units?

It is the policy of this Government that it is a public good to use public land for all of the public. That means having mixed housing on public sites, comprising social, affordable and private units.

The Government does not like public housing.

We have the agreed breakdown now and as much as €100 million will go into the site. There are no policies from Fianna Fáil in this area and that is why its leader is heckling me while I am trying to answer. His party has no solutions for housing. It has supported Rebuilding Ireland for the past three years, during which time it has not produced its own housing plan, as promised. The party has not proposed to change one element of Rebuilding Ireland.

How much will people pay?

The majority of affordable houses will sell to members of the public for €300,000. A teacher and garda, for example, earning €55,000 between them, will be able to afford one of these homes.