I am struck by the Taoiseach's boastful approach regarding the so-called metrics on housing. Those metrics are record and skyrocketing rents, record evictions and record homelessness. Last year, the State spent almost €500 million on emergency accommodation. Over the past decade, almost €5 billion has been spent on managing homelessness. All the while, homelessness continues to rise. Families are in hotel rooms, single people have nowhere to go, pensioners are facing homelessness, children are growing up without homes and taxpayers are footing an extraordinary bill for the Government's failure. When is the Taoiseach going to be honest? Where is this honesty he is bragging about? When will he honestly accept that his approach to housing is driving crisis after crisis? When will he have the honesty and integrity to accept that and change course?

Hear, hear.

The solution to the housing issue is supply. We need far more supply than we are getting, notwithstanding the fact we are building more social houses than we ever have per annum. We will continue to build social houses over the next ten years because the investment is being made. There is massive State investment in housing, and there is additional, discrete ring-fenced funding for emergency housing but also to deal with those on the emergency housing lists and provide them with homes. In the budget, the Minister secured ring-fenced funding to enable him to do that. We will continue our work on supply. We will not be out there objecting, as the Deputy is doing in respect of apartment after apartment in her constituency.

The Taoiseach is so glib about people who have no homes.

She talks about being honest but she is objecting left, right and centre.

The Taoiseach is so glib.