Young people are despairing. They are giving up hope that this country will ever provide them with the fundamental need and human right of a home. The people we need - nurses, teachers, doctors, tradespeople and therapists - have emigrated because of the lack of affordable housing. At a housing summit yesterday, Sherry FitzGerald said it is likely that just 25,000 homes will be built this year. That is only half of the minimum of 50,000 homes needed. Rather than turning a corner on housing, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are driving us in circles on a roundabout that is going nowhere. We have yet to see an emergency response from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to this disaster. The one scheme that is working - the tenant in situ scheme - is being restricted and already we are hearing that local authorities will not have sufficient funding to implement it this year. Will the Taoiseach commit to allocating emergency capital funding to Uisce Éireann, to the not-for-profit bodies and to local authorities to ensure they can deliver homes?

The Taoiseach also said during the election that the target for housing delivery for this year is 41,000 homes. Will the Taoiseach confirm that that is the target and if he expects to deliver it, or is it another misleading claim like he made during the election?

That is the ESRI, figure, as Deputy Hearne well knows. All Members will be aware that a figure of 50,000 homes a year was identified as being required over the next five years. Very few of the Opposition Members identified how to get there. The tenant in situ scheme does not build houses.

It keeps people in their homes.

Yes, but it does not build houses. Let us not conflate the two. It is important to prevent homelessness but that scheme does not build houses. The focus has to be on how we get houses built faster and as quickly as we possibly can.

I note that Deputy Hearne is quoting Sherry FitzGerald. When the Government used similar private sector bodies last year to identify projections, his party subsequently ridiculed the reliance on private sector agencies for doing that. The Deputy cannot have it both ways.

We are only highlighting the baseless election claims on it.

I am absolutely focused, however. As far as I am concerned, it is a crisis. Young people need to be able to afford to buy houses and be able to rent houses at affordable prices. That is the Government's agenda and we have already allocated an additional €800 million in the first two months of this Government over and above what the provision was for housing.