How many people are living at home with their parents? That gives the Minister of State the answer, does it not? How many people today, with their families, are living at home with their parents? I know my children and their partners are. They are living with me. I am a building contractor. For them to be able to afford to build their own house is not viable because of inflation. They are saving hard but as hard as they can save, inflation is passing out what they can save. Those are the people who want to build their own houses. We came on to the modular houses and we said to allow people to put in a modular unit at the back of their own house. It would allow the parents, if they wanted to, to downsize, or a couple to come in behind their own house. The Government still has not finished that legislation. It is now waiting for the Department of the environment to fix it. It still is not done. We were talking about it last year and the Government still has not got it sorted this year for people who are trying to help their own children. How many people in local authority houses have their children and partner staying with them? What happens when people move into a local authority house and they are paying rent? It is based on the income coming into the house. The Government cannot provide a house for them but it will charge them rent in an overcrowding situation. That is what it has done. What could the Government do to relieve the? Why are there so many landlords leaving the market? How can we stop this in the interim to help the next generation? What the Government could do is the same thing it did for the Ukrainians, which is to drop the rents to a certain price where there would be no tax, halving the rent. That is what it could do, and let people provide houses. Anyone who is charging rent in a household - a landlord or whatever - and they are raising their prices, 40% to 50% of it is tax. Why are we giving the tax when the Government cannot provide a home? The Government has no solutions; its only solution is tax, and that tax is added on for every renter in this country. That is the Minister of State's fault and the Government's fault. That is why we have the situation we have today. They have no business mind for how to tackle situations. All they know is about inflation because when something goes up they get extra tax. What do they do with it? They squander it. There is no accountability for the taxpayers' money in this country because they do not know what to do with it. If you make a bags of it in the Department and you spend millions of euro in an overspend, what do they do? They reward you. Who suffers? Every person in this country that works. That is who suffers. The Government wants to learn. Listen to people that know. The Government's advisers do not know and that is what is putting this country in the situation it is in today.

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