The Taoiseach was bragging there about the Government's achievement in housing. Meanwhile, a new report published by Morgan McKinley Ireland shows that Ireland faces a brain drain across the economy. Workers in many professions are emigrating because of a housing crisis and sky-high living costs. Accountants are heading off to Australia and Canada and the construction sector has also been badly hit as the lack of availability in housing has seen workers packing their bags for the United States and Canada. The inability to find a home where they can build a life is driving young people abroad; the very workers with the education, skill, talent and energy we need to build and drive our society and economy. This brain drain is a direct result of the Government's disastrous housing policy. This report might serve as a wake-up call to the Taoiseach. Will the Taoiseach study the report and accept that we need a massive ramping up, as Deputy Verona Murphy has suggested, of State-led delivery of affordable homes to buy and rent?

I have only read the headlines, I have not had a chance to read the report but I will. I hope the Deputy has read it too. I hope she also will read other reports and look at the Central Statistics Office, CSO, and ESRI analyses of these matters because, as she knows - even though she refuses to admit it - in the past three years, while 80,000 Irish citizens have gone to live abroad for many different reasons, 90,000 have returned. That is a fact. Every year, tens of thousands of people come to Ireland from other parts of the EU and from the UK and bring their skills and qualifications with them. Every year, we issue tens of thousands of work permits to people who are non-Europeans who come here with their skills and qualifications. The Deputy needs to know that because it is a fact.