We have been in the grip of a housing crisis for several years. Prices have skyrocketed and they continue to rise. Rents have spiralled out of control and show no sign of reducing. Workers and families are struggling to secure affordable accommodation.

On Tuesday, a memo was brought to the Cabinet, which the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, attended, setting out that a new pension auto-enrolment scheme will be needed so that future pensioners can afford to pay rent as they are going to continue to be locked out of home ownership. This is an admission that the Government's Housing for All strategy is failing. Yesterday, we heard from the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage that 35,000 additional homes will be required to meet provision for the Ukrainian refugees. Another Minister has revealed plans to build a tent settlement in County Meath to provide accommodation. How is all of this to be delivered? Does the Government propose to revamp its current plan in light of the urgent need for additional accommodation? How will it deliver on any future plan given all of its existing plans are dramatically failing?

As I said in response to an earlier question, the Housing for All strategy is the right strategy in light of what we will need to do because of the refugee crisis, but we will need to accelerate some of the measures. We cannot make home ownership an impossible ambition for people in our country, particularly in areas such as my own constituency, where houses are probably the most expensive in the country. I want to see my children grow up in the same area where I grew up. It is an area we know and is our home. That does not preclude the need for cost rental housing. It does not lessen the need for the shift to new innovative ways of doing housing. The Housing for All strategy does that, but as I said earlier, the emergency we face in terms of the refugee issue is going to force us to accelerate some of its measures. They are the right measures; we just need to deliver them quicker.