Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am aware I am short on time. On that point, obviously, the issue is that housing supply needs to be increased. The way to resolve this issue is by increasing social and affordable housing. I was very disappointed to hear about the affordable housing scheme in Galway city for which many people and young families were hoping. We have been hearing talk about this since 2019. Then we were told it was not going to come on stream until April. Now I am hearing it will be 2025, which is very disappointing for people. That is where the focus and delivery needs to be. I am deeply concerned at the lifting of this eviction ban, however.

I am under time pressure but I want to touch briefly on something raised by an Teachta Tóibín with regard to the Good Friday Agreement and the constitutional future of this island. I sit on the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, which met this week in Stormont when we marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. In the middle of this meeting, I was also writing a little article of my memories of the Good Friday Agreement, which are limited because I was eight years old. I do have memories around that time, of course. I have memories of the impacts it had on different families and my family from the North. I have many memories in that regard more so than the political campaign or anything like that. I do not remember the Good Friday Agreement campaign so to speak. What I am interested in hearing, and this is something I raised with the previous Taoiseach, is about a citizens' assembly on the constitutional question. It is something in which I believe strongly. It is one of those things I believe should have cross-party support in the Dáil. We can only benefit in bringing people together from all different points of view and different backgrounds to discuss the constitutional future of this island. We might look at what happened with Brexit and how poorly that referendum was run in terms of people not having the information and not having thrashed out those different issues. It can only be of benefit to us to have a citizens' assembly on the constitutional future of this island. I always say there are no two people in this room, no matter if we are all in the same party, who have the same view as to what a united Ireland would look like. That is why we need to have those conversations. I would like to hear the Taoiseach's view on that.