Well said.

Ba mhaith liom tacú leis an leasú ar Riar na hOibre atá molta ag mo chomhghleacaí, an Seanadóir Mac Lochlainn. I second the amendment to the Order of Business. I also share the concerns raised over the gorse fires and I hope we can have a debate on that.

We are back, after the break, to the usual Fianna Fáil hypocrisy on the housing crisis. Some things have not changed. It is ironic to hear Fianna Fáil talking about possibly heading into another property bubble because they certainly know about property bubbles and how to make them. If they were so concerned about the housing crisis their housing spokesperson might attend the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. Deputy Cowen has the lowest level of attendance at that committee, as has been highlighted by my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin. When we brought the rent certainty Bill forward, which would have addressed a number of issues which are in the Daft report, both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael opposed it. Instead of Fine Gael spending so much time on the beauty contest between the two Ministers, Deputies Coveney and Varadkar-----

But they are beautiful.

That depends on your perspective, Senator Norris.

They are some beauties.

Sinn Féin objects to everything.

-----we need to highlight the miserable failure of the Minister to deal with the housing crisis. He has misrepresented the figures on new homes.

The issues around the Daft rental price report are scandalous when one looks at what the Government has not done. Rents in Dublin are up by 66% and outside Dublin they are up by 41%. They went up by 13.4% between January and March and the average rent is €1,131 nationwide. In Galway, rents are up by 14%. This Minister told us he would tackle the rent issue but he and the Government are failing.

I would welcome a debate on the NOAC report. One part that strikes me, from the point of view of Galway, is that there is one staff member for every 66 dwellings in Dublin City Council compared to one for every 1,197 in Galway County Council. Where is the property tax going in Galway? What is the money being spent on? Why do we not have the staff in Galway County Council to deal with the issues we have? The Minister, Deputy Coveney and the Government should be focusing on these issues but they are failing miserably and we need another debate on the housing crisis as soon as possible.

I remind Senator Ó Clochartaigh and his colleagues that Fianna Fáil, which I am proud to represent, has a very proud record of provision of social housing in this country. One should compare Fianna Fáil's record on the provision of social housing and other social measures to the record of Sinn Féin in government with the Democratic Unionist Party for past ten years.

Bring it on.

Bring it on. It will be no contest. He has an empty head on the subject.