It is not agreed. For the second week now, I ask that the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, present themselves and make a statement to the House on their handling of the immigration issue, particularly the situation as pertains today on the Grand Canal in Dublin, where there are now 40 tents with unfortunate, vulnerable people living in them at the side of the canal. If ever there were an image for the Government's abject failure in this area, it is that there is a situation where, on the one hand, the State pays money to distribute tents to these vulnerable people, and then, at the far end, commits money to have these tents removed, only for more to appear. This is utterly scandalous. It is causing huge unease, not just across the city of Dublin but far beyond. We need answers and accountability from the Ministers, Deputies O'Gorman and McEntee, and from the Government.

I, too, would like to see an urgent debate this week on the Government's plan to provide sustainable accommodation for those who come here seeking international protection. I just came from the canal earlier. Along Baggot Street Bridge, there are now 48 tents. Last week, I welcomed the multi-agency operation. I was down there to observe it. It was inhumane and unsustainable to see so many people who were then camped along the canal at Wilton Place and Percy Place. I was glad to see the Government provide alternative accommodation. Over the few days since then, we have seen more people left in the same inhumane conditions. We have seen attacks on people sleeping in tents and on volunteers helping them. I commend the amazing volunteers. We have seen the State fence off large tracts of public space along the canal. This is not sustainable. We need to hear from the Taoiseach and Ministers as to how they plan to address the issue of accommodation for those seeking international protection as a matter of urgency. We cannot see this revolving door approach in which we see week-to-week solutions that are quick fixes that fix nothing for those forced to sleep in these inhumane and unsustainable conditions.

Has the Taoiseach taken a walk along the Grand Canal lately? I did earlier today and over the weekend.

What is usually a public amenity for the citizens of Dublin, where you would see people on a day like today having a picnic or a jog along the canal, has seen fencing erected by this Government. The Taoiseach should not shake his head. He orchestrated a multi-agency task force. I argue strongly that rather than the tents, which are an equal failure, those hoardings are a reflection of the Government's failure. It is State-sponsored vandalism that is desecrating this city.

We want them removed.

Do we get the opportunity or does the Taoiseach have the good grace to tell us what exactly the plan is? Will the Government keep fencing off the city of Dublin? That we do not have statements or the Minister for Justice answering questions this week is a poor reflection of the Government's commitment to the citizens of Dublin and the vulnerable people in those tents. As a matter of urgency, I would like to be updated on the plan for my city.

The Taoiseach boasted earlier about the increased construction of housing under his Government. What he is not acknowledging is that the majority of what is being delivered is completely unaffordable. We get 10% social housing on private developments. The rest is unaffordable rents and unaffordable house prices and the result is record homelessness, particularly egregiously for families and children. If the Government was buying houses instead of leasing them and getting a higher proportion, as well as building the social and affordable housing we need, we might see an impact. I have been asking for weeks now, and got agreement in principle, that there would be statements from the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, giving an update on Housing for All. There was a commitment that there would be four progress reports per year about Housing for All. They disappeared from the agenda. That perhaps suits the Government. Let us now point the finger at migrants but not talk about the Government's record on delivering social and affordable housing. When will we have the statements as promised, by the Minister, on Housing for All and addressing the housing and homelessness crisis in this country?

I am addressing the Taoiseach but I address my remarks to all of the party leaders, who have eventually and finally woken up. They were part and parcel of the problem all along for the past 12 months by not allowing debate, not wanting debate and shutting down debate. They were name calling people looking for debate, like me and my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group. However, now that it has arrived in the leafy suburbs of Dublin 4, the Government is putting up tents and fencing to keep people out. When ordinary people in Roscrea, County Tipperary, Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow, and all over the country, including now in Clonmel, attempted to have a peaceful protest and put up small barricades - not barricades as such, like the power of the State has - they were demonised, blackguarded and condemned by everybody here and their mouthpieces in RTÉ and other places. Now they have it, they will not have a debate. I want the Minister for Justice in here. The Taoiseach can shake his head all he likes. It is a fact, and he has the support of all the parties here - every one of them. Now they are getting it in the face with the local and European elections and they do not want it. It is now a topic they have to deal with because it is hurting them. They would not deal with it all along. They would not even have a debate in this Chamber, so a plague on all their houses.

There have been so many debates.

I support the call for a debate in this House. As of today, the figures for international protection applicants not offered accommodation is 1,780, which is 65 more than last Friday. I ask for that debate to take place because what is happening in our name is shocking. It is shocking for those living in tents, as has been described, and particularly dangerous for public discourse. I see posters going up in Galway that are absolutely shocking. I know the Taoiseach is nodding his head in agreement but I am afraid the Government has left a vacuum. It has let this happen by doing this. It was told direct provision was inadequate. It was told to change that and the narrative emanating at the moment from the Government and on the right is dangerous, appalling and against our international obligations. I see the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is there. He was left on his own for a long time and there was no joined-up thinking from the Government on this. We are utterly failing in our obligations under international treaties and conventions and all of the time a horrible, horrible discourse is prevailing.

There are many legitimate requests for a debate on migration. What is not legitimate is when Members of this House say things that are completely offensive and Trumpian in fact, such as things like "mouthpieces in the media" or that there has not been a debate. I am telling the Deputy that is untrue. The Ceann Comhairle can check the record of this House. There have been many, many debates. For the old social media clip, the Deputy stands up, slurs the media and calls them mouthpieces. That is kind of Trumpian and he will get a few likes and retweets in America.

The Taoiseach is very good at that himself.

He then says there have been no debates.

Seven spin doctors.

Many Members of the Opposition have asked for a debate on migration. I am happy for there to be a debate in the House on migration. It is a matter for the Business Committee to decide when best to schedule that. We have our business schedule this week. Sinn Féin has had many Private Members' Business motions. Are there three this week?

We made the request and you knocked us back.

Sinn Féin also has two Private Members' motions in this House this week. One is on a very important topic indeed. There are options for people in terms of how they wish to use their proportion of Dáil time. We are happy to have a debate on migration in this House and we are happy to engage with the Business Committee as to how best to go about that and the appropriate time for that.

You knocked us back.

Two weeks ago.

Please.

Let us also have a degree of context and fairness when we have that debate. The Government met today and considered ten actions on how we can look at a variety of ways to make our migration system more sustainable. This is not a question of abject failure. It is a question of looking at how the numbers have gone from about 3,500 people a year to one where we saw 106,000 people fleeing war in Ukraine since 2022 come to these shores and where we have seen international protection numbers rise significantly and we are having to build systems in real time to respond to that situation. I am very satisfied that a number of the actions we have taken today are very much that whole-of-government joined-up approach that we want.

I have no difficulty in having a debate on Housing for All being scheduled for the appropriate time. In fact the Government has an awful lot that it wishes to say on the progress being made on housing.

It has been promised for weeks. Can we have it soon?