Younger generations, renters and workers are being broken by the Government's housing policy failures. Today, we hear that last year there were 20,000 eviction notices issued to private renters, the highest we have seen since the Famine, and up 41% in the last quarter, made worse by the rent hike Bill. We are seeing evictions increasing on a scale we have not seen in this country. These evictions are causing a trauma to every person who is experiencing them, while house prices are also spiralling out of control. Younger generations cannot afford the rent hikes. They cannot afford to buy a home. They cannot afford to start their lives or to start a family. Does the Tánaiste accept that for younger people and workers in this country the housing crisis and the Government's policies are causing a social catastrophe? We need an emergency ban on no-fault evictions. We need a State construction company to build affordable homes that people can actually afford to buy across this country. Will the Tánaiste do that?

We have a State organisation in the Land Development Agency that is making a real and positive impact in relation to the delivery of homes right across our country. I have been on many sites with it in recent weeks and months. We do live in a housing emergency, of that there is no doubt, but it is important to quote the report in the round. I note that we did see the number of terminations actually fall in the final quarter, down 3.6% in quarter 4 compared with quarter 3 of 2025. We also saw the number of tenancies increase during that year as well. We have debated in this House before the unintended consequences of a no-fault eviction ban, as Deputy Hearne envisages, and we saw the outworkings of that in quarter 2 of 2023. We brought in a series of protections for tenants - very robust protections - in our recent rental reforms. That is an important step to take, in terms of six-year tenancies and additional protections for tenants. I look forward to people seeing the benefit of that in the time ahead.