I too will reserve my comments on the budget until later. I cannot let go uncountered what was said in this Chamber today about a particular author. It is important that facts matters. It is clear from the statement made by the author that it is not the language to which she objected in regard to the translation of her book. This is part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, BDS, campaign which is a non-violent campaign and should be supported, in the same way that this country proudly supported South Africa against apartheid. It is important to put on the record that the objection was not about the language.

There is a big difference.

The book is open to being translated into Hebrew by any publisher that is not covered by the BDS campaign.

Today, I want to focus on the comments last night of Mr. Owen Keegan, the chief executive of Dublin City Council, to the UCD students' union. I support the Sinn Féin council team in saying that his position is now untenable. He has proven himself to be ideologically opposed to policies that will benefit the people of Dublin city. Last week, I raised the destruction of the social and cultural fabric of our capital city. The comments made yesterday to the students' union were significantly lacking any form of empathy with regard to what students' are experiencing in terms of the accommodation crisis. One academic spoke about a student in her class who gets up at 4.30 a.m. to travel from Cavan to Dublin because there is no accommodation. Other students are renting hostel beds, with nowhere to study or put down roots during the academic year, or deferring their opportunity in life. For the chief executive to dismiss the concerns of the students' union about student accommodation, which was built in this city against the wishes of the vast majority of those communities, being converted into tourist accommodation when there are students who have no roof over their head is astounding.