Over the recess we saw five young lives ended on the motorway. We have seen adolescents charged with murder, assault and very serious levels of antisocial behaviour and crime. I would like the Deputy Leader to arrange a debate in the House with the Minister for education on the provision of a national adolescent primary prevention system. We need to better understand what is going on with our teenagers and adolescents. I believe the Minister for education is ideally positioned to implement on a nationwide basis an adolescent primary prevention system.

I welcome the Government's approval for the MetroLink. It has moved to detailed tender and design and this is an excellent development. I want to specifically ask that in parallel to this process the Minister for housing and the Minister for Transport work with the Land Development Agency to develop and masterplan the Carlton site, where we will have a metro station on O'Connell Street, to also deliver affordable homes. This is unique regeneration opportunity and a unique opportunity to provide affordable homes on O'Connell Street in the heart of our city centre. The site is enormous and has the capacity to deliver the MetroLink, affordable homes and cultural and commercial space. I ask the Deputy Leader to engage with the Ministers with responsibility for housing and transport and ask them to task the LDA to masterplan the Carlton site for affordable homes.

We have had a lot of talk about the upcoming budget. I support the appeal of my colleague, the Fianna Fáil housing spokesperson, Deputy Séamus McGrath, to help first-time buyers. He has asked that the Government would waive stamp duty on the purchase of homes by first-time buyers. This is an eminent proposal that backs first-time buyers to own their own home. Budget 2027 should back first-time buyers. It should remove stamp duty, as Deputy Séamus McGrath has suggested, and help more first-time buyers to achieve home ownership.