Fifteen minutes ago, the Taoiseach told the Dáil we do not want students living in hotel rooms. However, the Government has failed to stop students being forced to do precisely that. It is not just hotel rooms. In Cork city, 100 students are living in one hostel on Wellington Road at the moment. Officers of the student union in UCC tell us that more than 1,000 students have no proper place to stay. Student unions across the country are reporting significant numbers deferring their courses simply because they cannot secure accommodation. It would not have taken a rocket scientist to foresee this crisis. Student unions have been warning the Government for some time as to what was coming down the track and that the residential tenancies legislation and the change in regard to the colleges was not going to sort it for this year.

The Deputy's time is up.

The Taoiseach seems to have swanned off on his summer holidays without taking action until it hit him straight in the face, and all he can say now is the dog ate his homework. What is he going to do, not in 2030 or next year but now?

Please, Deputy. The time is up.

There is a crisis right across the country.

First, as I said, the broader issue in terms of housing is that we need to build more houses and more apartments and units.

What is the Taoiseach going to do now? There is a crisis now.

I know. I am saying to the Deputy that the most effective way to do it is to build more houses, apartments and units of different types across our cities and towns to deal with the housing crisis, which has many manifestations, not least in terms of student accommodation.

What is the Taoiseach going to do now, this week?

We will work with the student union bodies and the colleges to see what we can do to alleviate and ameliorate the situation.