The Government's last action before the Dáil rises for the summer is to cook the books on affordable housing delivery and ram through new legislation to reduce apartment standards that will mean generations of Irish people will be forced to pay €3,000 a month rent to investor funds to live in dark shoeboxes. Once again, the Government is sacrificing renters to investor funds and developers, who are clearly the ones making the housing policies. The apartment reductions will result in delayed projects. Ultimately, they will result in the creation of modern-day tenements. No mix, just all high-density micro-unit misery, less light, less space and higher rents.

We are likely to see to see more overcrowding and negative impacts on mental and physical health. Where will young people in our cities be able to have enough space to have a family when all that is built is one-bedroom apartments and studios? It is a cynical move, creating micro-units that will inflate the Government's delivery numbers so it can say it has met its housing targets, just like half its affordable home delivery this year has been vacant grants. Where is the evidence that the Government's new apartment guidelines will result in more affordable homes?

I thank Deputy, but his time is up.

How can the Taoiseach ensure the cost savings will be passed on to homebuyers and renters and not just line the pockets of developers and investor funds?

The Deputy, unfortunately, and his party engage continually in the politics of slogans, not action. We are taking action. The Deputy mentioned two; we have taken about 15 actions since the beginning of this Government in relation to housing alone and will continue to take action on housing. There will be housing types of different size. By definition, that is okay. They will not be dark shoeboxes.

They will.

There are sensible provisions. Different people look for different types of accommodation at different stages of their lives.

But it is the developers that will come in and-----

Deputy-----

The developers-----

We will build, predominantly, more houses. We need more apartments. We need more-----

Not shoeboxes.

-----private sector investment. The Deputy does not want any private sector investment, it seems.

That is not true.

The Deputy just attacked the funds.

Deputy Hearne, it is not a back and forth.

The Deputy does not want funds in, for example. I would love to know how the Social Democrats would get to 300,000. How is it going to get the 50,000?

We have put it in the homes for Ireland scheme.

The Social Democrats have not. That is not going to give what we need.