Before moving on to the substance of what I want to speak about, I acknowledge what Senator Nelson Murray spoke about, particularly the death of young Mia Lily Keogh O'Keeffe. We could add also the names of Conor Quinn, John Guy, Laura Hoy-Henry, Kathleen Cunningham and Brian Frisby and Grace Elliott. At the weekend, we lost no fewer than seven lives on Irish roads on an all-Ireland basis. That is seven lives too many. We are past the point where we do not declare what is happening on our roads a national crisis at…

I will sound very inadequate now because I cannot quote Muhammad Ali or Churchill. I will venture on as best I can. I am delighted this topic is down for discussion today. The bedrock of this country has been volunteerism down through the years. That spirit of volunteerism is the one thing that sets us apart from every other country. Many people have rightly mentioned the issues with Garda vetting and getting people approved. The flip side of that is when we were not so strict on it, we can look at the sins of our …

Are we having a free-for-all or having amendments?

If they get any more latitude they will say they are not objecting to all of this.

What about the examples of the accommodation in Cabra? Did the Senator give that example?

Give us a bit of detail of the objection against student accommodation in Cabra the Senator's party leader submitted. Give us the details on that.

He wants to give examples. I would hear his logic for objecting to student accommodation.

It is almost as if the Opposition come through an evangelical door on the far side of the Chamber because what they do outside and what they say inside the Chamber are completely different. In response to Senator Higgins, we now have the most regulated construction market, arguably, in the world. Since 2019, the standards of construction in Ireland have been beyond reproach. Certainly, there were mistakes made in the past in terms of apartment defects but solid steps and legislation put in place by the Government h…

It is the glass bottle site. My apologies. It is an ambitious site with 3,000 units and Senator Andrews bemoaned the fact that more than 500 of them will be affordable housing and 300 of them will be social housing. If Sinn Féin had not objected to 12,000 houses in Dublin over five years, imagine how many more social and affordable housing units we could have had. Equally, many Senators extolled the virtues of student accommodation and berated the Government for not delivering more social housing. Yet, I see that S…

They have had free rein.

I have to take particular issue with the Senator who is not happy with apartment building, which has seen a 33% increase. That they are not being built in Cavan is now the problem. When they are being built, Sinn Féin does not like to see them.

No, the Senator behind Senator Tully. Sinn Féin does not like when houses are being built and it has done everything possible to stop building. Senator Cosgrove referenced Labour Party Ministers' time in housing. In the last ten years, we have built 260,000 houses in this country.

I am almost finished.

That is the equivalent of rebuilding Cork, Limerick and Galway. The last Labour Party Minister for housing was Deputy Alan Kelly, probably the best leader of that party which unceremoniously dumped him, and he delivered 75 social houses in 2015.

Labour's track record in housing was 75 houses in 2015, so it should not lecture us on housing.

Do not lecture us on housing. Go back to 2015.

You cannot lecture us.

We can see Sinn Féin's performance in Northern Ireland.

The Senator spent two days giving out. Everything is wrong with the site, according to him. He must have looked at every one of those apartments because he is down viewing them the whole time.

They are there because of Fianna Fáil-----